When does his IronMan suit come out?

Right now, the only thing that stops bone wastage is gravity. A lot depends, then, on how long the outbound trip is vs. how long the stay in Mars' gravity. Still Mars has less than 40% of Earth's gravity, so its effects will be muted.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

One of the things that he's already done that doesn't get as much fanfare is his solar roof shingles and PowerWall system. Stil expensive, yes (as was the Roadster when it forst came out), but as prices drop this will become de rigueur for home building.

Right now the payback is too long for it to be considered financially viable for most people. But if municipalities start to think a little bigger, imagine how much they can save on infrastructure cost if that new 5,000 home sub-division is built with Tesla's solar systems? They won't have to worry about adding the generation and transmission capacity necessary to power all those homes who would be all-but self-sufficient in electricity. Better, they may add to the grid during the day once they've topped off their PowerWalls and haven't yet got home from work/school.

Extrapolate that out to all new construction. Everyone can have a normal-looking roof and yet everyone's house is its own little power station. You want to get rid of coal and nuclear power? Have every home generate its own.

I saw a presentation recently from Wood Group where they showed how solar and wind technology is getting cheaper and more efficient more quickly than anticipated even 5 years ago. Same with battery technology - for which Tesla is at the forefront - particularly as regards manufacture and recycling.

He used a "toy" electric car to prove his technology, added a luxury model to prove he can build cars, added an SUV which goes mostly ignored (despite being very good) and has now produced a family car to compete with the "name" brands. This was exactly by design from long before the Roadster hit the streets. He has a plan for solar too, and it's coming along exactly as its meant to...

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

...exercise whilst not prevent it, certainly helps to 'address' the signs for a lot longer

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What I like about him...apart from his ideas and the fact he's no idiot...is that there's no pretense about him...if Branson had come up with Musks ideas he'd be plastered all over the globe, whereas Musk believes in his ideas doing the talking..

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I think that's more to stop muscle atrophy - particularly the heart as it is wont to get lazy with no gravity to have to push against. The exercise doesn't do much to stop the loss of bone density though.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.