I Just Figured out Elon Musk's Long Game

As you all know by now, South African-American billionaire Elon Musk’s company SpaceX successfully launched a rocket into space. And yes he put his car on it and yes he is fun and does fun stuff and this is not a hit piece and it is not me giving him a rusty trombone. I just have him figured out. See, I believe him when he gets all choked up about space. I think he really DOES want us to go to Mars. But not for the reasons you think.

Elon Musk wants to be Emperor of Mars and there is nothing we can do to stop him. And I really don’t want you think I WANT to stop him. I don’t care what he does with Mars. But here is how I think he is doing it.

In what was his smartest move, he became a billionaire first. Having a lot of money helps when trying to become Emperor of anything except like, trailer parks.
He did a bunch of stuff that WASN’T obviously a stepping stone to becoming Emperor of Mars. Who needs Paypal on Mars? This made him into a pretty cool guy billionaire.
He failed a bunch of times and was very honest about them. That makes him sympathetic because he doesn’t seem like someone who gets stuff handed to him. It also shows that he is passionate and that matters.
So then he made electric cars and at first they sucked but people still like him and he handled customer service well and people liked him more. Why electric? To save the environment? We will get to that!
So he loves space and created SpaceX and decided to make most of the stuff they need to make rockets themselves to “keep costs down”. Why? You will see.
Then on a whim he made a company that digs big underground tunnels. Why? To help with traffic? We will get to that, too!
Then he made a giant rocket that will go into orbit OUTSIDE Mars’ orbit. Why? To be able to space good?
He put his car on the rocket.
He started a company to make flamethrowers.

OK so what does this all mean? Well I am a little disappointed you haven’t figured it out yet. Here we go:

Step One: Send a bunch of stuff to Mars

To become Emperor, you need to have there be a livable space to rule. So he didn’t start out making a tiny little wussy rocket. He started with a GIANT ONE that is (relatively) cheap to operate, so he will be able to shoot a lot of stuff that he needs to Mars where…

Step Two: Build a robot factory on Mars

This is probably the easiest part. He sends all the stuff there and the robots build it. See, he showed us in point 6 that he doesn’t need to outsource things. He might have to buy the creepy robots from Boston Dynamics but everything else he will just send from his own factory. Then the has the creepy robots put it together.

Step Three: Project Electronical Dominancer

What are the robots building? Well, lemme see. What would be a smart first thing to build on Mars?

Mars is a very windy place–so windy, in fact, that bright, oxidized martian soil is being scoured away by martian winds and dust devils to reveal darker, sub-surface soil with the end result of making the whole planet warmer. Mars is experiencing its own brand of climate change. SPACE

They are making windmills because they are going to need power on mars. They can’t burn fossil fuels, DERH. So they need windmills on the surface to power the….

Step Four: Project Undermars

Boring machines that he is making for pretty much no reason. They will spend their time making underground cities and whatnot. Musk got the idea from watching “Total Recall”. Did you not get that already?

Step Five: Populate and Incinerate

OK so the last piece is the spookiest. Once he has a working Mars Cave, people will be FLOCKING to get to it. And since it is another planet, regardless of whatever dummies on EARTH say he will do whatever he wants. Because seriously who wouldn’t?

No other country even WANTS to go to Mars so I don’t see who is going to stop him?
If someone did try, once they get to Marsville airport or whetever they would have to follow MARStial law and surrender their guns and karate chops. Unless they sneak in.
You can’t sneak up on a planet.
Nobody wants to be the jerk that says: Oh! So you went to Mars and became Emperor? Guess we will come conquer you!
Even if they DID Musk would get away because he would be the only one on Mars with access to a car!

Now, what they WILL do is try to charge ridiculous amounts of money to use their launch pads so Musk will probably go to some country in Africa and make them rich by building his new Mars Shuttle Airport there. Hell, they might just all go with him, which would be a smart play because if you make minorities the majority in your new Empire you have a built in incentive to get more recruits!

The only thing I didn’t cover was the flamethrowers. Well, Musk watches movies. So if he watched “Total Recall” it is probably a good bet he figured out how to deal with “indigenous peoples” by watching movies, too.