Is destiny playing its role, or is this just a creepy coincidence?
Yet a freaky coincidence came to light in December last year, and it's catching people's attention once again. Wernher von Braun
, book"The Mars Project" as a connection to Mars exploration. What stands out about this link is that von Braun's book was published 69 years ago, far ahead of when Musk would be involved with anything to do with the Red Planet. , which later proved instrumental for the U.S. space program during the Cold War.
In his science fiction novel, von Braun writes about a futuristic people who would colonize Mars, and who would be led by someone called"Elon." Well, after closer inspection, and translation , someone called Pranay Patholethat the"Elon" in the book"isn't the name of the person but rather the name of the position something like an elected meritocratic president."
So even though the coincidence is still worthy of a mention, von Braun didn't quite predict that Elon would be leading the colonizers on Mars, but that someone who held the title"Elon" would. In any case, the link is far too supernatural to go unmentioned. The whole coincidence was brought up on Twitter in December last year after Musk himself posted a short and sweet message saying"Destiny, destiny, No escaping that for me." To which someone called Toby Li jumped at the opportunity to respond with the 1952 book linking Elon to Mars.
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