The original Star Wars movies were so loved because: -Spaceships and laser swords are cool. -It's WW2 in space mixed with a Western in space. All-American tropes like gunslinger and fighter pilot, but in a space opera. -It has a religion that is real. Yes its kind of cringey 1970's California Buddhism but it's still in there. Plus the religion assists with laser sword fights. -The setting has a delightful archaeo-futurist tone. It's after the fall of a cleaner, better civilisation ("an elegant weapon....from a more civilised time...") and it has a mix of hard sci-fi tech and scrappy junkyard tech plus all kinds of aliens that just exist as a kind of backdrop. -The acting is fine, the pacing is excellent, the dialogue has just enough exposition to let you figure out what's going on but not too much to ruin the mystery. -Nothing like it had ever been made. It felt genuinely new. And the scale of the story was so large, it felt impossibly epic. For the 70's it really did blow people's minds.

ELON MUSK: “We want to be a civilization that expands to the galaxy with spaceships that anyone can go anywhere they want at any time & have a city on the moon, cities on Mars, populate the solar system & send spaceships to other star systems. To do that, we need to harness the power of the Sun.”

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Does the US Government have a ultra-secret space fleet?🚀🚀🚀 There are, and have been for some time, claims by UFO disclosure supporters that there is in existence a fleet or fleets of human spaceships charged with monitoring alien traffic throughout our solar system and even defending our solar system in the event of an extraterrestrial attack. Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, is probably one of the most high-profile persons to have come forward regarding the existence of alien beings visiting Earth. He has addressed the topic in several interviews, saying there are indeed extraterrestrial civilizations beyond our solar system, they have indeed visited Earth, and the United States government may have collected and backwards engineered alien technology. “I suspect that in the last 60 years or so, that there has been some back-engineering and the creation of this type of equipment, that is not nearly as sophisticated yet as what the apparent visitors have,” stated Dr. Mitchel during a Kerrang Radio interview on July 23, 2008. In 2001, a hacker named Gary McKinnon used a series of clever techniques to hack several government computers, including and probably not limited to NASA and U.S. Navy computers. His original purpose for hacking U.S. computers was to seek out hidden data regarding the existence of free energy, or “zero-point” devices, he told Wired in a 2006 interview. In his digital travels he allegedly uncovered an excel spreadsheet with a list of names and a heading of “non-terrestrial officers,” he told Wired.

Years ago, Elon Musk sat on a stage and pointed to the largest flying object humanity had ever conceived. And he called it a rowboat. Elon Musk: “The future spacecraft will make this look like a rowboat. The future spaceships will be truly enormous.” He wasn’t describing ambition. He was describing a unit of measurement. The interviewer asked what it could carry. Musk: “This can take a fully loaded 747 with maximum fuel, maximum passengers, maximum cargo… this can take it as cargo.” The 747 took decades and the full weight of Boeing’s engineering empire to perfect. Musk looked at it and saw a suitcase. Not a rival. Not a benchmark. A thing you put inside the real thing. That is not confidence. That is a completely different relationship with scale. Then came the timeline. The interviewer assumed twenty to thirty years. Musk said eight to ten. Nobody blinked. That is what dismissal looks like in real time. Not pushback. Just the quiet assumption that the number isn’t serious. Because the human brain is linear. We project the next decade by copying the last one. Musk was reading a manufacturing curve most people in that room didn’t know existed. The disbelief was not skepticism. It was a biological limitation. We just watched a 232-foot booster fall from space and land between a pair of mechanical arms on its first attempt. The rowboat is being built in real time. Most people misread the gap. It is not between dreamers and doers. Every founder “does.” The gap is between people who set a deadline and people who set a deadline and then wager everything they have that the laws of physics will cooperate with the calendar. Most visionaries paint the picture and wait for the world to catch up. Musk pours the concrete before the permits arrive. For a decade, the timeline was mocked. The physics were questioned. The ambition was called delusional. And step by step, fireball by fireball, the steel got taller. Every generation builds something it considers a miracle. And every generation that follows quietly loads that miracle into its cargo bay and barely notices the weight. That is how civilizations actually move. Not in straight lines. In phase shifts. And the people who trigger them always look insane right up until the moment they don’t. He told us exactly what he was going to build. Then he built it.

Elon Musk on making science fiction real. "So that it's not always science fiction, but one day the science fiction turns to science fact." Most people leave space in the theater. Elon treats it as a handoff — fiction becomes hardware when the ships are real and the people are aboard. • Science fiction → science fact • Big spaceships with people to the Moon and other planets • Then beyond our star system Not a forever-Earth ceiling. Not a movie set. A destination. "And we want to have epic futuristic spaceships with lots of people in them traveling to places we've never been to before."

Elon Musk on making science fiction real. "So that it's not always science fiction, but one day the science fiction turns to science fact." Most people leave space in the theater. Elon treats it as a handoff — fiction becomes hardware when the ships are real and the people are aboard. • Science fiction → science fact • Big spaceships with people to the Moon and other planets • Then beyond our star system Not a forever-Earth ceiling. Not a movie set. A destination. "And we want to have epic futuristic spaceships with lots of people in them traveling to places we've never been to before."

Long before Tesla, SpaceX or even PayPal, a 12-year-old Elon Musk was already building things with code He created a space-themed video game called Blastar using BASIC The idea was simple: the player controlled a spacecraft and had to destroy an alien freighter carrying deadly hydrogen bombs and “status beam machines” The player started with five ships, effectively giving them five lives In December 1984, the source code was published as a type-in listing in the South African magazine PC and Office Technology Elon was 13 by the time the issue appeared, and he was paid around $500 for the code There was no app store or modern game engine or YouTube tutorial at all The game was printed as lines of code across magazine pages so readers could manually type it into their own computers More than 40 years later, the original code has been transcribed and can still be run through a Spectravideo emulator A browser version was also recreated from the original magazine listing At 12 years old, Elon was already turning ideas into working technology First, he programmed spaceships on a screen Decades later, he began building real rockets and spacecraft