Elon Musk?

[m.lp.ql.m]

I often wonder though, just how does Elon Musk smell?

 

[Paul Weaver]

The STD timeline has been adjusted to match reality through 2017.

Citation needed -- how is Discovery's history different to that seen in Enterprise or Voyager?

I often wonder though, just how does Elon Musk smell?

Through his nose!

 

[zar]

I don't see why we need to change the timeline. Star Trek is already obviously an alternate timeline to reality. And it's been clear ever since "Future's End" rewrote the entire personal computer development history, in an episode written after it had already happened IRL, that we're under no obligation to match Trek history to real history.

Naturally, Elon Musk skipped the whole software part of his career (because Henry Starling already had that covered) and went straight to work on the DY-100s.

OR he was born decades earlier than our Elon. After all, Paul Stamets was born 3 centuries late.

 

[Paul Weaver]

Star Trek has been an alternate timeline since TOS season 2 -- in assignment earth, set in 1968 - the year of broadcast - had the United States launching a nuclear weapons platform from McKinley Rocket Base. That wasn't happening in real life.

 

[XCV330]

Maybe Star Trek reality Musk perfected the Woodward-Mach Effect and had a working impulse drive. We're not THAT far behind perhaps.

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

It will all depend won't it, on whether he lives up to his plans. A million people colony on Mars by the end of the century. All on his own initiative. We can doubt him, but in 2004 nobody expected a private businessman would set up a company from scratch, that now has more launch capability than NASA does. If he succeeds, he makes Howard Hughes look like a garage-salesman.

But it's the danger of name-dropping a real life person; he could go bust or die next year.

I think SpaceX has a decent shot at getting humans to Mars before NASA does. Even if Musk does prematurely die before that happens, but SpaceX still succeeds in getting humans to Mars after his death, you know that SpaceX would say "the success of this achievement was all due to the visionary ideas of our late founder, Elon Musk."

Heck, if he died before they went, I wouldn't doubt that the Mars spaceship would be called the "Elon Musk".

 

[Longinus]

Eugenics Wars and Khan happened in the 2040s in this timeline. Of course it's a reboot.

That 'reboot' happened a long time ago. In Space Seed Spock describes Eugenics Wars as "the era of your last so-called world war" and says it was two hundred years ago. Both of those make EW to take place in mid 21st century as TNG established that the World War III took place then, and it must be the same as EW (because EW cannot be 'the last world war' if it happened before WWIII.)

 

[Crazyewok]

Elon Musk: Co-founded PayPal.

The first steps in a cashless society and the "removal" of money :P

 

[Cephas7]

I smiled when he said Elon Musk. And it is well deserved.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Star Trek has been an alternate timeline since TOS season 2 -- in assignment earth, set in 1968 - the year of broadcast - had the United States launching a nuclear weapons platform from McKinley Rocket Base. That wasn't happening in real life.

Or Earth creating genetically engineered supermen who must have been born around the time of TOS for them to be in their early-30s by the mid-1990s.

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

It turns out that Elon Musk reciprocated Star Trek: Discovery with a reference of his own...

https://www.inverse.com/article/36944-elon-musk-space-1999-moonbase-alpha

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

It turns out that Elon Musk reciprocated Star Trek: Discovery with a reference of his own...

https://www.inverse.com/article/36944-elon-musk-space-1999-moonbase-alpha

From the article you linked:

"...It also has, bar none, the grooviest theme music in television history:

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I need to disagree with the "bar none" part of that quote...

While I do agree that Space:1999 had groovy music (and I used to watch that show as a kid back in the 1970s), I also think that the TV show UFO (made by some of the same producers as Space:1999, including Gerry Anderson of "supermarionation" fame) also had some really great theme music in an opening title sequence that was structured in a way that is very reminiscent of Space:1999's opening.

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EDIT TO ADD:
Both themes were composed by the same person -- Barry Gray. That's why there are similarities.

 

[Amaris]

I'm fine with the Elon Musk reference. If what he aspires to do comes to fruition, and he sure as hell is pushing to make it happen, SpaceX could be behind the technology we use to colonize and supply Mars missions. Humans leaving our home to set foot on another planet? That's history worthy right there.

 

[WraithDukat]

I often wonder though, just how does Elon Musk smell?

Terrible.

 

[Number One]

I often wonder though, just how does Elon Musk smell?

Like roses, cedar tree and fresh mint, no doubt.

 

[GeekUSACarl]

I often wonder though, just how does Elon Musk smell?

Like genius, that's how he smells. Like genius and eccentricities

 

[publiusr]

Here's the Christmas Gift he's gonna give us
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/11/spacex-aims-december-launch-falcon-heavy/

 

[GeekUSACarl]

I'm way more excited about the hyperloop

 

[XCV330]

https://twitter.com/SpacePadreIsle/status/1217939916371517442/photo/1

Someone giving back? Spacex's new Starship transporting ship is called "GO DISCOVERY"

 

[Paul Weaver]

I'm way more excited about the hyperloop

What problem do you think it will solve?