A young SpaceX employee asked Elon what happens if they fail to reach Mars in his lifetime. The room was full of engineers and the question landed heavier than anyone expected.
It was a simple question but it cut to the core of everything SpaceX exists for. The entire company, every late night, every exploded prototype, every engineer who missed their kid's birthday for a launch window, it all points at Mars. What if it doesn't happen in time?
Elon paused.
He said that the goal was never for him personally to walk on Mars. The goal was to build the infrastructure that makes it inevitable. That even if he dies before the first crew lands, the system he built would carry the mission forward without him.
He said the rockets, the factories, the team, the culture, all of it is designed to outlast any single person. Including him. Especially him.
Then he said something that reportedly moved people in the room.
He said that if he thought success depended on him being alive, he would have already failed. The whole point is building something that doesn't need its founder to keep going.
He compared it to a cathedral. The architects of medieval cathedrals knew they would die before the building was finished. They designed it anyway. They poured their life into something they would never see completed because the completion wasn't the point. The commitment was.
SpaceX is his cathedral. He may never set foot on Mars. But the road between here and there will exist because he refused to accept that nobody was building it.
The most ambitious man alive has already made peace with the possibility that his greatest achievement might happen after he's gone. That's not failure. That's faith in something bigger than yourself.
THIS IS FOR EVERY BITCOIN HOLDER PANICKING RIGHT NOW. ๐จ
Bitcoin just broke below 60K while stocks sit near record highs.
Let me be clear.
Bitcoin is doing nothing strange.
It has always moved in four year cycles, crashing near the end. 2014. 2018. 2022. And now 2026.
It feels brutal because this is the exact point where people get sad and give up.
That is the pattern, every single time.
Fear always peaks at the bottom, not the top.
The next cycle up runs 2027 to 2031.
@ikanatassa@DitjenPajakRI Government got no fucking money so they steal money from peopleโs savings. No wonder rich people donโt want to keep their money in this fucking country.
Andrew Ross Sorkin on Elon Musk:
โHe is a demonstrable force for good. Heโs a genius. I admire so much about what heโs created; If I look at the totality of this man, 100-200 years from now, heโs the person weโll be writing the history books about."
Kimbal Musk explains United States Government wants to pay $1 billion dollars per rocket launch
SpaceX came along and said no, the price is way lower at only $50 million
US Government pushed back and wanted the cost $1 billion dollars per launch
โGovernment would say, "But we'll pay you $1 billion. We just want you to do it our way." No, but that's the wrong way. You have to do it this way. It's $50 million. We were very happy with that price. The government was like, "No, we don't want that." And we actually couldn't believe it. We're like, "But you must want it for a lower price." Actually, they didn't care that much about price.โ
Basically it works like this
Old defense contractors can spend as much as they want and the government will pay that amount plus 10%. That means they have an incentive to make the launches as expensive as possible
SpaceX said hereโs a fixed price of $50 million and if we can do it cheaper then we can keep the extra money
This is a much better incentive system because it saves taxpayers a huge amount of money and SpaceX gets rewarded for making launches cheaper
BREAKING: The US DOJ just declared Elon Musk's AI data center a national security asset and blocked an environmental lawsuit against it.
The NAACP filed a lawsuit against xAI in April 2026 under the Clean Air Act, alleging the company is operating dozens of gas turbines without the required air permits to power its Colossus 2 data center.
The turbines are located in Southaven, Mississippi, just across the state line from the data center in South Memphis, Tennessee.
Since the lawsuit was filed, the number of turbines has grown from 27 to 57.
xAI says that the turbines are legally exempt from Mississippi air permitting requirements because they are mounted on trailers and classified as temporary mobile equipment.
On Monday, the Department of Justice intervened in the case, filing court papers arguing that shutting down the turbines would โthreaten American national, economic, and energy security.โ
The DOJ stated that the power supply supports U.S. military AI operations.
Cameron Stanley, the Defense Departmentโs Chief Digital and AI Officer, submitted a declaration stating that Grok is one of only four AI models currently cleared for mission critical operations across Secret and Top Secret classified government networks, and that it has been used in recent U.S. military operations against Iran.
The DOJ, xAI, and the state of Mississippi are jointly asking the court to dismiss the case.
Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.
400 of them are now worth over $100 million.
These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.
Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.
Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."
The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.
Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.
Absolute SAVAGERY by mad max on V14.3.3 ๐
Weโre driving along the highway, and encounter traffic. We are supposed to be on the roadway Iโm pointing at with an arrow a few seconds into the video. FSD knows from mapping that the Rt 1 exit allows an opportunity to re-connect with I-76 before it branches off into an exit lane, and to avoid a section of traffic, FSD decides to yeet the exit, blow by about 1/2 mile of the backup before muscling its way back onto 76. I had to mute the video because I was laughing like a psycho the entire time.
So good. Mad max will get you where youโre goin man
๐ป๐ณ This hotel ad was shot entirely by drone in Vietnam and it looks like a movie trailer.
A drone operator and one of the most stunning landscapes on Earth.
Hospitality marketing has changed forever.
THIS IS INSANE.
Samsung and SK Hynix alone could generate enough tax revenue to cover nearly HALF of South Koreaโs national debt.
The two chip giants are expected to generate over โฉ2,600 TRILLION ($1.7 TRILLION) in operating profits between 2026 and 2028.
At an estimated 25% corporate tax rate, that could translate into roughly $435 BILLION in tax revenue alone, which is nearly half of South Koreaโs national debt.