“Those Who Attack Space”: Musk tweet becomes a meme

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Elon Musk doesn’t find the question of whether billionaires should really hold a private space race funny at all. He responds to the critics with an almost lyrical tweet.

Elon Musk is not just an entrepreneur, crypto troll, ruler of Mars and suspected tiny house resident, but now apparently also lyric poets. At least that suggests a tweet that Musk dropped on Monday and that is now, of course, once again becoming a meme.

those who attack space
maybe don’t realize
that space represents hope
for so many people

These are the wordsthat the Tesla founder puffed into the Internet in a moment of poetry. The occasion was probably the space flight of his colleague Richard Branson. On Sunday he flew in a space plane from his company Virgin Galactic at an altitude of over 80 kilometers and once again fueled the debate as to whether space tourism is really what the world has been waiting for.

Because of course, even if you can admire the technical achievements of companies like Virgin Galactic, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and Elon Musk’s SpaceX, the question remains whether the latest space race that the billionaires are fighting among themselves is really a win for humanity is – or just a financial gain for a few, already very rich men. “Doesn’t anyone find it alarming that billionaires are holding their private space race while record-breaking heat waves are cooking marine animals to death?” Asked the former US Secretary of Labor Robert Reich on Twitter.

Now, of course, one could argue: some buy the latest FIFA for the Playstation every year or a carton of cigarettes every week with their money, others invest billions in the development of a rocket that one day will take wealthy people into space for a few minutes should. Everyone what he or she can. But many people still see the private space race as decadent and unnecessary. After all, one often reads that the money can also be put into more meaningful projects.

At least Elon Musk, his character Buddy by Richard Branson and one who already purchased a ticket for a Virgin Galactic space flightdoesn’t understand all the fuss. He finally sees the population of space and the colonization of Mars as a necessity, or, as he writes, at least as a ray of hope for many people.

In any case, the tweet is currently causing amusement on Twitter. In the sense in which users take the verse and apply it to other things that, in their opinion, mean hope. Take the guillotine, for example. Or hummus. Or the new edition of “Gossip Girl”.

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