‘It’s a penis!’: Elon Musk showed off his ‘erect’ rocket again and it was very exciting
The great man unleashed several graphic images of his big, shiny and undoubtedly impressive vessel.
Elon Musk has unleashed several graphic images of his massive shiny rocket and his Twitter followers became a little flustered.
The billionaire took to Twitter to share graphical representations of the SpaceX Starship on the surface of Mars and the Moon, prompting his followers to make predictable jokes about its phallic shape.
‘It’s a penis!’ one man boldly proclaimed.
‘Looks like a d**k with fins,’ another roared.
‘I love it.’
‘Low key he wants to send his erect rocket to the moon,’ one of Musk’s followers continued.
— Dave Kerestesi (@Coach_Kerestesi) April 29, 2019
Other Muskovites said Starship resembled a gigantic high-end sex toy.
‘Chief, that looks like a $500 dildo,’ a Twitter user opined.
We were recently given a real-life glimpse of the man’s mighty craft and it was every bit as impressive as you’d imagine.
The SpaceX Starship is currently being assembled in Boca Chica, near Brownsville in Texas.
Photographs showed the craft under construction with what looks like its nose cone on the ground, waiting to be assembled.
Starship was previously known as BFR (Big Falcon Rocket or the Big F***ing Rocket) and is at the centre of Musk’s plans to send humans to Mars.
Musk now believes humanity will be able to found a permanent settlement on the Red Planet in just over three decades.
‘It’s possible to make a self-sustaining city on Mars by 2050, if we start in 5 years,’ he wrote on Twitter .
The billionaire said he’s planning to make the big move to the Red Planet and abandon Earth for good.
‘I know exactly what to do,’ the Tesla and SpaceX founder told HBO in an interview broadcast last year.
‘I’m talking about moving there.’
However, Musk was in no illusions about the danger of this endeavour.
‘We think you can come back but we’re not sure,’ he added.
‘Your probability of dying on Mars is much higher than on Earth.
‘It’s gonna be hard. There’s a good chance of death, going in a little can through deep space.’
The billionaire said he would work ‘non-stop’ to establish a base on Mars.
If you’re brave enough, you could even have a chance of joining him.
In 2018, Musk insisted the Mars colony 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’ with ‘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 first.
‘There will be an explosion of entrepreneurial opportunity because Mars will need everything from iron foundries to pizza joints to nightclubs,’ he added.
Residents could expect a fairer form of government called direct democracy in which ‘everyone votes on every issue’, Musk said.
He 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 computer.
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.’
If you want to find out more about Elon’s, erm, rocket, you can read what his girlfriend Grimes allegedly said about it by clicking here.