"Dear Dan," re: Elon Musk

I still write to some buddies inside.
This started out as a letter to one of my best friends in there, (or out here, if only he'd get out. Ain't happening, though.) Then I realized it was too good not to share with everyone. Anyways, here it is:

Man, that Elon Musk is something, isn't he? Just like one of them guys out of Heinlein. I think of “The Man Who Sold The Moon,” in particular, but there are so many others.

And his ability to get things done! WOW! He just jumps in and makes thing work, and I don’t mean in 20-30 years either, nor only one or two things. This guy seems to be going after everything necessary to make us a true space-age society, spread throughout the solar system, and starting for the stars!

Everything from underground tunnel hyper-speed transportation, to standing the car industry, (and the car-dealer industry!) on its head, to getting us off the earth commercially, to mining the asteroid belt and making it work.

Fucking awesome, dude!

I’m so goddamned happy to live in this age where we are seeing so much happen, so fast, that it’s almost impossible to even comprehend! Cell-phones themselves are even old-fashioned at this point, so ‘20^th century’.

In all of history, there has never been such an exciting time with so much happening at once.

Look at the stuff NASA is pulling off. Everything from, (unmanned, so far,) Mars Missions to helping to commercialize space travel with their ‘X-Prize,” to hiring on with commercial outfits for transportation to the Space Station, (we've even got a space station, there are tourists, and there are orbital hotel plans in the works!)  to DARPA with their ‘Autonomous Cars,’ (I've seen the Google car several times, even,) to their ‘Robotics,’ challenges. Etc…

There is just an insane amount of shit happening in this time in history.

I sure am glad I‘m living now instead of sometime in history when things hardly changed at all!

So, if all you see in life is the, ‘Same old, same old,’ I really feel sorry for you.

You are missing it all, including life itself.

(Dan, this started out to you, (before that last paragraph,) and I hope you've enjoyed it. It has now decided to become a BLOG Post. It’s just too well put to not post. Thanks buddy, for the inspiration.)

Well, hope you've enjoyed it and maybe even learned something from it.
God bless us all, whatever God may be.
Thanks.