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Is Elon Musk an Alien?

Is Elon Musk an Alien? Elon has a BS and an MS in Physics [0] Consider his career. [1] He dropped out of the Stanford Physics PhD. Program after two days in 1995. He made his first money selling yellow pages on the web ( Zip2 ; sold to Compaq in 1999 for $309m, Elon got 7%.) Then he founded X.com and merged with Confinity and renamed Paypal in 2001 and went public in 2002 and raised $61 million. [2] Sold to Ebay for $1.5 billion dollars later that year. [3] Then Elon declared he wanted to settle humans on Mars. Not just land people on Mars, but start a self-sustaining colony. He started SpaceX with his own money, a company built to fly things to Mars. He bought Tesla and makes cars with electric engines that will work in a vacuum, like on Mars. He founded (with his cousins) and then bought SolarCity, a company that turns sunlight into energy (can you imagine sending oil to Mars?) This company makes solar panels. A critical skill needed to populate Mars. He's buildin