Being filthy rich has always guaranteed a rapt American audience for any man’s crank ideas. The latest iteration of this, besides the Presidential campaign, is the huge media stage available to Silicon Valley billionaires, who all stumbled upon a Midas moment in the dim light at dawn of the internet era. They now believe that they can end disease, live forever, discipline an unruly press, and populate the solar system, among other ways to spend their essentially infinite treasure. If their thinking on these subjects is reminiscent of beery late-night maunders in the sophomore dorms, that suggests how young they were when everything they touched turned into gold and they stopped having to think much at all. Today we have reports of Elon Musk, who hit pay dirt with a kind of online cash register, speaking to a cheering crowd of spaceflight enthusiasts in Mexico about traveling to Mars in the very near future. The technical details are sketchy as ever, but Musk includes a restaurant on his rocketship. The billionaire says that we will go, so it must be true.
“His job is to supply inspirational leadership,” observes John Logsdon, a Sputnik kid like me who landed a grownup job at George Washington University that kept him close to the old Disney dreams. “There hasn’t been someone like that for a very long time.” Logsdon knows very well that the last “someone like that” was Wernher von Braun, the Nazi weapons builder cum American space race celebrity whose name can no longer be cited with enthralled admiration by respectable college professors. If only von Braun had been a billionaire.
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