I want to note, too, that all of those claims were known absurdities when he said them. Mars was and, at least as he conceived, is never going to happen. The details he ignores are the whole puzzle. Middle management types love the idea that he's just cut through the faff of the overthinkers to get to brass tacks. No, he's ignoring the core logistic impossibility of all of those proposals. He doesn't understand anything and doesn't think he needs to--his opinions are worthless.

@rorystarr There's a character in Mike Duncan's The Martian Revolution episodes from his Revolutions podcast who is a glorious parody of Musk - and that's after Mike skewers Musk in the first episode with a few well-chosen sentences.