Elon Musk muddles up Mars and The Moon – so decides to conquer both

Elon Musk has been ribbed after mistaking The Moon for Mars.

Last night, the billionaire business tycoon turned internet memelord took to Twitter and shared an image along with the words: ‘Occupy Mars.’

However, the picture he uploaded actually showed The Moon rather than the Red Planet.

One of his fans then replied: ‘That’s the moon.’

Naturally, Elon took the mistake on the chin and made a joke about it, unleashing two laughing emojis and saying ‘The Moon too’ as if he wanted to conquer both.

The mean people of the internet weren’t quite so light-hearted about the mistake and leaped in to yell abuse at Elon.

One charming chap wrote: ‘The hero who is going to colonize Mars doesn’t know what Mars looks like. Fantastic!’

“Re-delete your account,’ another person raged.

Musk shared an image of moon which appears to have been snapped during an eclipse, which can give it a red tinge.

He went on to discuss the political makeup of his Mars settlemtn, which will be a ‘Martian technocracy’ built around ‘anarcho-syndicalism’,

Last year, Musk shared an artist’s impression of the SpaceX Mars Base Alpha on Twitter.

In a response to a question about when it might be constructed, Musk tweeted: ‘Probably 2028 for a base to be built.’

Earlier this year, Musk insisted a Martian colony he’s planning to build won’t just be an ‘escape hatch for rich people’.

Speaking at SXSW, the billionaire hinted that people whose bank balance is in the red will also be allowed to live on the Red Planet.

It’s unclear whether they would actually want to do this because life on Mars is likely to be pretty rubbish at first.

Musk said it would only house ‘the most elementary infrastructure’.


‘Just a base to create propellant, a power station, blast domes in which to grow crops, all the sort of fundamentals without which you could not survive,’ he said.

So that means no nice old pubs, Greggs bakeries or any of the other things which make life semi-bearable here in the UK… at least for a little while.

‘There will be an explosion of entrepreneurial opportunity because Mars will need everything from iron foundries to pizza joints to nightclubs,’ Musk said.

Residents could expect a fairer form of government called direct democracy in which ‘everyone votes on every issue.’

Musk hopes to send a spaceship to Mars as early as next year and build a colony to counteract the ‘risk of human extinction’, which he fears could happen at the metallic hands of a super-intelligent AI.

At SXSW, he also warned: ‘Mark my words: AI is far more dangerous than nukes… I’m very close to the cutting edge of AI and it scares the hell out of me.’

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