Elon Musk is Evil (what did he do)

Interviewer: "Elon, you talk a lot about the future but where are you today?"

Musk: "Yeah, I don't know. I'm not in a hurry."

Musk established SpaceX in 2002, when he went off to explore space on the world's only private rocket company.

Now, the company says it can launch and land a space craft in orbit.

To be clear, Musk was speaking in a conference call with reporters on Wednesday, and he's being very cagey about his rocket technology. The company also says that the technology is still in development, but the company claims that it can land a craft that's returning to Earth after launching.

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Musk said that SpaceX is going to try to land its rockets on a pad at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. He's confident that the rocket could perform well if it lands in one piece.

"This is the most complex rocket landing attempt in history," Musk said.

SpaceX is also planning to fly a reusable rocket in June, and if it works, Musk plans to land a rocket that's returning to land on a floating platform, which he says could be about 100 miles off the coast of Los Angeles.

However, the company says the rocket landing is one of many tests it plans to undertake in 2016.

The craft uses the rocket as a propulsion system, and the propulsion actually becomes the rocket.

SpaceX also says that if the plan works, the company would be launching "three or four rockets, out of a fleet of 50 rockets, that could land and be reused and refurbished," Musk said.

But the company is not going to provide a timeline for the craft's actual launch, which will require it to successfully test the propulsion system and it's rocket landing technology.

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In the meantime, Musk says his vision of a human mission to Mars may be a little closer than it was six months ago.

"I think we are probably close to establishing some kind of operational base," Musk said. "We've now confirmed it works in practice."

Musk went on to say that he also believes there's a chance that the economy can take off.

"I'm willing to bet that in two years we could get to human missions," he said.

The odds are still very long, however, to get people into space anytime in the next several decades.

As Musk told reporters, NASA's budget is typically between $20 billion and $30 billion a year, and even with a significant boost from the Trump administration, the budget is likely going to be less than that.

Musk is nothing if not pragmatic. As he approaches 80, Musk is preparing for what he calls the "endgame" of human civilization, a dramatic shift in the lifecycle of our society, a world of both poverty and abundance that Musk envisions as the dawning of a new golden age, when Musk would be in a position to achieve his ultimate goals: a global space program that will allow us to move people and things to every part of the planet; endless cheap energy; and a rapid transition to an Earth-free environment.

Whether Musk will succeed in these ambitions remains to be seen. But one thing seems clear: if he does, Musk will become a success, a celebrity-like figure who has already accomplished more

But Musk believes there are other ways to fly people into space, and perhaps cheaper ways than NASA's plan of one huge rocket,

Musk is an idealist but an out of touch billionaire