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Elon Musk Says There's a '70 Percent' Chance He'll Move to Mars:
Elon Musk has talked about personally heading to Mars before, but how likely is he to make the trip, really? Well, he just put a number on it. In an interview for the Axios on HBO documentary series, Musk said there was a "70 percent" chance he'll go to Mars. There have been a "recent number of breakthroughs" that have made it possible, he said. And as he hinted before, it'd likely be a one-way trip -- he expects to "move there."
The executive also rejected the idea that traveling to Mars could be an "escape hatch for the rich" in its current form. He noted that an ad for going to Mars would be "like Shackleton's ad for going to the Antarctic," which (though likely not real) made clear how dangerous and the South Pole journey was. Even if you make it to Mars, you'll spend all your time building the base and struggling to survive harsh conditions, Musk said. And while it might be possible to come back, it's far from guaranteed. As with climbing Everest, Musk believes it's all about the "challenge."
The interview is available on YouTube.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday November 27 2018, @09:28PM
The Stanford Alumni Association made Direct (ie: "Junk") Mail history by flogging a fund-raising campaign that would fly alumni over the North Pole by including a cover letter that first pointed out that they'd be making history - which really they didn't, Valery Chkalov did that in the late thirties when he, a copilot and a navigator flew a propeller plane over the pole to Vancouver, to land at what at the time was Pearson Army Airfield.
That cover letter emphasized a whole bunch of purely fictitious yet life-threatening danger, so they wanted only true adventurers to cut Stanford generous checks.
My former employer, Dave Johnson, pulled Working Software's ass out of a sling when he couldn't get distribution. Despite being sternly warned "never to upset the Channel People", Dave started by stuffing 100-piece test mailings all by himself, eventually to find a combination of product, price, cover letter and outside-of-the-envelope text that was quite definitely profitable, scaled up to 1,000 pieces, 10,000 and so on. A few years later our peak mailing "Dropped" a quarter million pieces, yet still made a hefty profit.
I'm planning to use Direct Mail to flog Soggy Jobs' Indiegogo campaign. I'll let you know how it goes.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]