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Elon Musk's $50K TX house is a humble prefab home that can be towed by a Model X
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has mentioned that he now lives in a ~$50K house at Starbase, Texas, where his private space company, SpaceX, is manufacturing its Starships. Based on images of the home, it appears that the Tesla and SpaceX CEO is indeed living modestly in a prefabricated housing unit that's only about 400 square feet.
Teslarati recently received a tip noting that Elon Musk's housing unit in Starbase, Texas is a Boxabl Casita, a foldable, prefabricated home designed for quick installations and maximum affordability. A 20×20 unit such as the one that Elon Musk reportedly owns is priced at only $50,000, less than the cost of a Model Y Long Range Dual Motor AWD. The Boxabl Casita is durable, too, being made of concrete panels and steel. It could be installed very quickly and transported easily, as well, with the home being light enough to be pulled by a vehicle like a Model X.
[...] The Boxabl Casita is designed to be customizable with different finishes and configurations. Yet a look at Elon Musk's apparent housing unit in Starbase shows that the CEO only opted for a base unit. Musk did mention that he has installed improvements to the home that would probably make it worth about $69,000 today, but even such an amount is less than the cost of a base Tesla Model S. The Casita is classic Elon Musk in the way that it's different and practical, though the idea that the 20×20 unit may be home to the world's third-richest person is very compelling. People with a net worth of $172 billion, after all, typically live in lavish properties.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Thursday June 24 2021, @04:43AM (16 children)
I don't remember all the lore, but he's been shedding properties [vanityfair.com] and maybe wants to die poor. Possibly ending up dead on Mars.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday June 24 2021, @04:57AM (5 children)
We all wind up dead, you know. Some dead in gutters, some dead in mansions, some dead in the wilderness. Dead on Mars doesn't sound so bad, when you think about it.
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(Score: 4, Touché) by Tork on Thursday June 24 2021, @06:56AM (4 children)
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(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Freeman on Thursday June 24 2021, @02:12PM
Then you'll just wish you were dead on Mars.
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(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday June 24 2021, @03:56PM (1 child)
The Russian solution to that is a pair of pliers.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 24 2021, @07:27PM
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday June 24 2021, @11:23PM
Even on Mars, shovels work.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 24 2021, @05:20AM (7 children)
Who wouldn't want to make Mars their final destination? Amazing view of the night's sky, low gravity for those achy bones, communal living after your friends have long since departed - one way or the other, and a culture with more than a passing interest in gardening and planetary development.
To say nothing of being a part of what may ultimately be the single most important step in the evolution of humanity. Even as we set out to cross the seas, we could look on at the birds and the sky, and even further above them to the stars in the sky. Space, so far as we understand, really is the final frontier. And once humanity has conquered this frontier - we will have finally all but ensured the existence of our species.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Thursday June 24 2021, @05:27AM (2 children)
In 200 years tourists to the capitol of Mars will visit Musk's tomb.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 24 2021, @05:31AM
or not...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 24 2021, @03:50PM
I presume you're talking about a franchise of space-based theme parks that President
TrumpMusk leased his name to.(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 24 2021, @09:20AM (2 children)
Why? A sack of shit dropped there will have a larger effect in terraforming Mars than a senile boomer.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday June 24 2021, @11:25PM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 25 2021, @12:19AM
So they do have a use. Humanure farming.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 24 2021, @03:51PM
Your mom. Actually true.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Thursday June 24 2021, @12:29PM (1 child)
With that much cash on hand, you can rent a staffed but otherwise private Caribbean island on a whim, charter a jet + helicopter to go there, stay as long as you like, bring in friends from around the world, then return "home" when you want.
I think part of Musk and the Casita is the fold-out construction. I wouldn't be surprised if his Mars habitats are similarly sized and similarly pre-fabricated for easy assembly on site with compact shipping dimensions. When critics lob barbs about Mars immigrants being trapped in tiny houses Musk can fire back that he lived in a similarly sized house "for years" in Texas.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 24 2021, @03:52PM
He's so smart foiling the
SECnaysayers.