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21 Weird Things We've Learned About Elon Musk - Source 2 Musk has been referred to as a "thrillionaire," a new class of high-tech entrepreneurs looking to use their wealth to make science-fiction dreams into a modern reality.
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21 Weird Things We've Learned About Elon Musk - Source 2 Musk has reduced the cost of reaching the International Space Station by 90%, bringing it down from $1 billion per mission to just $60 million.
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21 Weird Things We've Learned About Elon Musk - Source 2 SpaceX has a $1.6 billion contract with NASA to resupply (and eventually ferry people to) the International Space Station, effectively replacing the Space Shuttle.
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21 Weird Things We've Learned About Elon Musk - Source 2 SpaceX is the first commercial company ever to successfully recover a spacecraft from Earth's orbit, and its Dragon spacecraft is the first commercial vehicle to attach to the International Space Station.
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25 Fun Facts About Elon Musk - Source 3 "The important thing is that if we do get some sort of runaway algorithm, then the human AI collective can stop the runaway algorithm. But if there's large, centralized AI that decides, then there's no stopping it."
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25 Fun Facts About Elon Musk - Source 3 At age 12, Musk taught himself computer programming and created a video game called Blastar, which he sold for $500.
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25 Fun Facts About Elon Musk - Source 3 Musk provided a large amount of inspiration for the Hollywood character Tony Stark (a.k.a. Iron Man). In fact, parts of Iron Man 2 were actually filmed inside and outside of SpaceX. Musk even has a cameo in the film!
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35 Electrifying Facts About Elon Musk - Source 1 Elon Musk has signed the Giving Pledge, in which pledges promise to donate the majority of their wealth to philanthropic efforts.
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35 Electrifying Facts About Elon Musk - Source 1 Musk introduced his latest endeavor, the Hyperloop, a new form of transportation that could theoretically send people from San Francisco to Los Angeles in half an hour by way of pressurized tubes. Musk has said if no one else will build it, he will do it himself.
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35 Electrifying Facts About Elon Musk - Source 1 Musk was named Fortune's "Businessperson of the Year" for SpaceX, SolarCity, and Tesla Motors.
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35 Electrifying Facts About Elon Musk - Source 1 The Federation Aeronautique Internationale, which is the world governing body for aerospace records, presented Musk with the FAI Gold Space Medal in 2010 for designing the first privately developed rocket to reach orbit.
