Honestly everything about the future has been about fifteen years behind schedule (or more!) from what I was expecting in 1999. I was fully expecting affordable lunar tourism for the middle class by now.

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atriarch 12 hours ago | parent [-]

I know, right? Where's the space ship in my garage?

I first heard about Elon Musk in my teens when I was reading astronomy magazines and wishing Robert Zubrin was running NASA. Why wasn't Nasa progressing? We stopped going to the moon and made a space truck to ferry satellites and ISS nodules into LEO for $2B a pop and 1/100 odds of fatality. Anyway here comes this SV guy wishing he could put a greenhouse on mars and see if a plant would grow in Martian regolith...

I'm still waiting for that experiment, Mr. Musk.

	▲	mullingitover 12 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Don't hold your breath. Musk was never sincerely planning any kind of sci-fi future, the fact that SpaceX was built with help from Mike Griffin (who was a key player in the 80s 'Star Wars' SDI program) and the fact that Starlink's roadmap is basically reheated leftovers of Brilliant Pebbles[1] really gives the game away. He's just a generic military contractor with (well, used to have) good PR. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Pebbles
	▲	CamperBob2 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I'm still waiting for that experiment, Mr. Musk. Me, too. He's just another Lucy, holding just another football.