Elon Musk and My Theory on the Real Reason he Wants to Colonize Mars.
- Steve Truitt
- 4 days ago
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Recently, in one of those quotes only Elon Musk could deliver with a straight face, he responded to concerns about increased rocket launches from his Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas by tweeting: “The turtles and nudists will have to migrate.”
I don’t know about you, but that sentence alone pretty much sums up the absurdity, genius, and self-admitted madness of the man.
I worked for Elon at Tesla for two years, and I’ll admit it: you get caught up in the mission. Transitioning the world to sustainable energy isn’t just a company slogan—it’s intoxicating. You start believing you’re on the vanguard of saving humanity, that every PowerPoint deck you build is somehow contributing to the survival of civilization. It’s like working in the middle of a hurricane: the chaos is exhausting, yet you can’t help but marvel at the sheer force of nature behind it. And Elon himself? He is the hurricane.
What fascinates me most about Elon is not his money or even his inventions—it’s his will. Sheer, unrelenting willpower. He’s the kind of person who, once locked onto an idea, is going to chase it until it either happens or the laws of physics themselves raise a white flag.
He didn't invent the electric car, the rocketship, the mind-connected device, the robot or the tunnel digger. But he saw opportunities with all those things, opportunities that I postulate were to serve his ultimate goal: Rule Mars Forever.
Let me explain.
In Nassir Ghaemi’s book A First-Rate Madness, he argues that true societal progress doesn’t come from the well-balanced or cautious, but from people who are, in a word, a little mad.
Ghaemi points to leaders like Lincoln, Churchill, and JFK—people whose eccentricities and mental struggles fueled their ability to lead through crisis. By that definition, Elon’s membership in the club is platinum tier.
Think about what he's done for the industries I mentioned above: He almost single-handedly revived a dead electric car market, making Teslas not just eco-friendly, but cool. He’s building rockets that land themselves—rockets!—like something out of a Marvel movie. And while NASA spent decades dithering about the next space shuttle program, Elon said: “Nah, I’ll just build the thing myself.” He’s the only guy alive who has managed to make space travel feel like a tech startup product launch.
But here’s the rub: Where’s the line? Where’s the regulation? Where’s the balance between genius and megalomania?
Elon has this uncanny ability to bend reality around him. If government regulations are in the way, he treats them less like laws and more like speed bumps. Annoying, sure—but not a reason to hit the brakes.
However, if it's power he seeks, then bending and breaking laws may not get him to the seat of power on Earth.
And that's my point.
Remember when Tesla was struggling, and he took government subsidies with one hand while trolling regulators with the other? It’s part of his charm, part of his madness. But let’s not pretend he doesn’t know how to play the political game. I’ve long held the theory that Elon helped push Trump into power solely to take the heat off his own enterprises. While the world obsessed over tweets and walls, Elon was quietly launching rockets, digging tunnels, and fusing monkeys’ brains to computers.
The integrated brain stuff always gets me because I often cringe at the notion that I thought of this 10 years ago when I began thinking about writing my first novel, "The MindSet Chronicles" which tells the story of a mind-connected society. Leave it to Elon to make it a reality.
And that brings me to my favorite theory—the one that keeps me up at night, equal parts admiration and horror. The Boring Company, Neuralink, the Mars mission—what if it’s not about saving humanity at all?
What if it’s about saving Elon?
Follow me here:
Elon swallows up all the infrastructure and resources he needs without regulation.
Solar vehicles and technology are improved to operate in harsh environments.
SpaceX gets us to Mars.
The Boring Company builds the underground infrastructure for his empire.
Once all is set up, Elon transfers his consciousness to a robot body and lives forever as king of the red planet, the world’s first immortal techno-monarch, with a robot army and a colony of nudist-turtle refugees he personally evicted decades earlier.
Science fiction? Maybe. But if anyone’s going to try it, it’s him.
That’s the paradox of Elon Musk: visionary savior or narcissistic overlord? Hero or villain? Honestly, he’s both. He’s Tony Stark and Doctor Doom rolled into one, depending on which way the Twitter algorithm swings on a given day.
Remember, this is just a theory of mine. But I've spent my life in keen observation of others' behavior patterns and motives. I could be wrong, but my gut usually gets it right.
But here’s what I know for sure: Without people like Elon—the slightly mad, the wildly ambitious, the infuriatingly stubborn—society doesn’t move forward. Bureaucracy calcifies progress. Committees debate while the ice caps melt. If we’re waiting for the careful and the cautious to lead us to a multi-planetary future, we’ll be extinct before the paperwork gets signed.
The mad ones break through. They always have.
So maybe the turtles and nudists will have to migrate. Maybe we’ll all have to migrate, eventually. Maybe Elon really is just paving the way for the survival of the species—or maybe just his own species, Musk 2.0, uploaded and eternal. Either way, I can’t look away.
Because in the end, love him or hate him, Elon Musk is forcing us to ask the big questions: What’s possible? What’s ethical? And how far are we willing to let one man’s will reshape the destiny of humanity?
From my perspective, he sees this whole world as just a simulation, so why not go crazy in it? Why not grab what you can and make the most of it!
If nothing else, he’s made one thing clear: the future won’t be boring. Unless, of course, it’s built by The Boring Company.
What do you think... Does Elon want to rule the Red Planet and Live Forever?
No, he's trying to help us all
I have no idea... I just think he's crazy!
Yes! We will all bend the robotic knee one day to Lord Elon!
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