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Unable to Reach Mars, Musk Does the Most Musk Thing Possible

— Gizmodo on the announcement from the Apartheid Era Emerald Heir Pedo Guy™ that he is abandoning Mars for the moon

Musk is giving up on Mars because his claims of saving humanity by creating a Martian city have become so transparently laughable that even his normal fanbois are losing interest. 

The old grift has gotten stale, so he creates a new one.

Elon Musk built SpaceX on his dream of colonizing Mars. For decades, he kept the company on a strict path toward achieving that goal, arguing just last year that using the Moon as a stepping stone to the Red Planet would be a “distraction.” Now, he’s singing a very different tune.

In an X post on Sunday, Musk said SpaceX has “shifted focus toward building a self-growing city on the Moon.” Achieving this new goal, he said, will potentially take less than a decade, whereas colonizing Mars would take more than 20 years.

As usual, it's rally all about getting government money to further enrich himself.

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This pivot comes as SpaceX is racing against Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin to deliver a lunar lander for NASA’s Artemis 3 mission, which will be the first to land astronauts on the surface of the Moon in over 50 years. NASA awarded SpaceX the contract in 2021, but that never stopped Musk from criticizing the agency’s Moon-to-Mars trajectory. 

NASA originally planned to launch Artemis 3 in 2024 but has since pushed the mission to 2028, partly due to uncertainty over when a crew lander will be ready. SpaceX’s Starship Human Landing System (HLS) has faced significant developmental delays in recent years, prompting the agency to reopen the contract in October. Now, Musk has apparently gotten on board with the whole Moon-to-Mars thing.

Considering the basic architecture of Musk's moon lander, it's no wonder that Bezos is nipping at his heels.

The lander weighs 6 times that of the Apollo LEM and requires multiple in orbit refuelings, and his rockets are still blowing up and their payload capacity seems to be shrinking with each new test.

His rockets are unlikely to make it to either the Moon or Mars. 

In the Middle of a Government Shutdown, 2 Gulfstream 700s

Yeah, Kristi "Ice Barbi" Noem has had the US Coast Guard buy her 2 Gulfstream jets for $172 Million.

Way to steward the taxpayer's money, you Saracen pig dog. 

I guess that she wants space for privacy while she achieves the mile high club with Corey Lewandowski. 

There was money in the budget, about $50 million, for a Gulfstream 5, but I guess she just needed more space, so she pulled money from somewhere else.  (I think that the technical term for this is embezzlement)

I Agree with the Human Bowling Jacket

Ontario mayor Rob Ford has terminated the deal with Starlink to provide remote communications systems.

Rob is the Ford brother who wasn't caught smoking crack.

Ontario has officially cancelled its $100-million contract with Starlink, but the province refuses to say how much it cost taxpayers to get out of the deal.

Energy and Mines Minister Stephen Lecce did not answer numerous questions Wednesday about the kill fee the province will have to pay Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

It should not cost anything.  Just refuse to pay, like Elon Musk and Donald Trump do.

“I can confirm we’ve cancelled the contract at this point, and we look forward to bringing forth alternatives to the people of Ontario so we can get people connected,” Lecce said at an unrelated press conference.

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford threatened to kill the deal in February if U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods were imposed, and he ultimately pulled the deal in March when U.S. President Donald Trump implemented those tariffs.

“It’s done, it’s gone,” Ford said at the time. “We won’t award contracts to people who enable and encourage economic attacks on our province … and our country.”

This is the, "And find out," part of the whole, "F%$# around and find out," process.

It should be noted that the Apartheid Era Emerald Heir Pedo Guy™ at one point said that Canada was not a, "Real Country."

Well, I guess that they are not a real former customer.