CAVEAT EMPEROR: Yet another of Elon Musk’s intergalactic spermatozoa shot conspicuously across the Santa Barbara sky this Monday evening at 6:09 p.m. No sonic boom was heard this time, but celestial exhaust tailings could be seen from Musk’s sixth SpaceX rocket launch from Vandenberg since the New Year.
Many of you are sick of Musk and have told me to shut up on the subject. But now that he is playing Darth Vader to Donald Trump’s Emperor Palpatine, Musk has expanded the outer reaches of his personae beyond even Howard Hughes — a previous generation’s world-shaking eccentric genius.