Getting a man on Mars? 100% possible with current technology. Having a man survive any duration on Mars? Slightly more dubious.
Getting a man on Mars who is able to ever return to Earth let alone reach a death caused by age related illness or cause? Probably not there yet.
I am less intrigued at what Musk will achieve and more morbidly curious to see where his “dynamic entrepreneurial nature” (a nice business way of saying: “opportunistic self interest”) will take him next and what overblown promises he will make on the premise that they are so grand that not achieving them will still make him be seen as “bold” or “visionary” and actually achieving them at some point would make him a “prophet” who “does the impossible.”
The plain fact is that the boring and unpleasant truths of realistic milestones and long term plans tend to disappoint and not excite. Were his employees to behave as he does when it comes to setting goals and time tables and reporting progress he would fire them. If you make a promise to deliver a project or result and give an overly optimistic promise in order to gain buy in and puff yourself up, repeatedly, and miss, repeatedly- in the realm of the entitled executive missing these targets makes you an asset with invaluable experience, but for a “normal” person- aka the ones who actually have to do the work on these pipe dreams, such failures would make you unreliable and a liar.
Hasn't done it yet, but I'm intrigued to see if he will achieve it in the future
Getting a man on Mars who is able to ever return to Earth let alone reach a death caused by age related illness or cause? Probably not there yet.
I am less intrigued at what Musk will achieve and more morbidly curious to see where his “dynamic entrepreneurial nature” (a nice business way of saying: “opportunistic self interest”) will take him next and what overblown promises he will make on the premise that they are so grand that not achieving them will still make him be seen as “bold” or “visionary” and actually achieving them at some point would make him a “prophet” who “does the impossible.”