Elon Muskhas had another bright idea – catapulting satellites fromthe moon.
Musk told staff at xAI,his start-up that recently mergedwith his rocket companySpaceX, about his plans to build a lunarAIsatellite factory.
The billionaire isn’t quite imagining astronauts wheeling out a wooden, medieval-style catapult – he wants to build a mass driver.
The sci-fi-sounding space launcher, also called an electromagnetic catapult, would create magnetic pulses that shove payloads sky-high.
According toThe New York Times,Musk said at an all-hands meeting: ‘You have to go to the moon.’
The Tesla chief added that this is step one of a three-step plan: build ‘a self-sustaining city on the moon’,colonise Marsand then explore the cosmos to find aliens.
‘If you’re moving faster than anyone else in any given technology arena, you will be the leader, and xAI is moving faster than any other company — no one’s even close,’ Musk added.
‘Because we’ve reached a certain scale, we’re organising the company to be more effective at this scale.
‘And actually, when this happens, there’s some people who are better suited for the early stages of a company and less suited for the later stages.’
He said in apost on Xyesterday that some xAI staff were laid off as the company was ‘reorganised a few days ago’.
Source: Drudge Report
