Elon Musk: MMA cage fight with Mark Zuckerberg ‘might actually happen’
- Twitter owner Musk tweeted on Tuesday he was up for a cage match in Las Vegas with Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook parent Meta, who has trained in jiu-jitsu
- The match ‘might actually happen’ said Musk while at a party in Europe, adding it was possible that it could go badly if Zuckerberg takes the match seriously
“I haven’t started training yet. So if this does happen, I will,” Musk said in a talk on Twitter with Ashlee Vance, the author of a book on Musk and the space race.
The match “might actually happen” said Musk while attending a birthday party in Europe, adding it was possible that it could go badly if Zuckerberg takes the match seriously.
Space Exploration Technologies Corporation has changed how the vehicle operates on its path to orbit and it now stands a much improved chance of success with its second attempt, according to its chief executive officer.
“So I think the probability of the next flight working – or getting to orbit – is much higher than the last one,” Musk said. “Maybe it’s like 60 per cent; it depends on how well we do at stage separation,” he said on a Twitter Spaces on Saturday with Bloomberg senior reporter Ashlee Vance.
Investment in the Starship project is likely to approach US$3 billion this year, Musk said. Starship is SpaceX’s next-generation rocket, designed to carry cargo – and eventually people – to deep space destinations such as the moon and Mars.
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“This is something that the Soviets and Russians have used in their space designs,” he said.
Musk was pressed on whether his commitment to space exploration has wavered in light of his acquisition of Twitter.
“We’re trying to get to Mars as fast as possible,” he said.
Musk declined to discuss several topics broached by Vance, including the status of his recently created artificial intelligence company that might rival OpenAI.
He also said it would be “illegal” to talk about plans for a possible initial public offering for Starlink, SpaceX’s constellation of satellites that provide high-speed internet access in remote areas.