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Does it get any cooler than a flying car?
Humanity owes tech titan Elon Musk its thanks for producing that marvel, demo’d Thursday, and for many other future-delivering achievements — and above all for making visionaries . . . great again.
Breathtaking video shows the long-awaited Tesla Roadster zipping to the top of a vertically curved track, then launching into open air, rotating mid-air and landing itself on the ground using jet propulsion.
Musk is an incredible driving force for progress.
He turned electric cars from a sideshow into a broad commercial reality; he plays the role of both Wright Brothers in the private space industry.
He developed and deployed Starlink, bringing robust, fast connection to the whole globe using low-earth-orbit satellites.
And all that after starting PayPal, another world-changing piece of tech.
That’s the kind of dynamism that really does make this country great.
Fine; Musk, like many visionaries, is a divisive figure — progressives now portray him as a global supervillain, but then again hating success is what that movement’s now all about.
Even his “failures” plant seeds: His time running the Department of Government Efficiency didn’t pan out as hoped — but did sheer the federal payroll with no evident loss of efficiency and laid the groundwork for Team Trump’s already-landmark War on Fraud.
His takeover of Twitter, rescuing it from its Ministry of Truth madness, defied the critics to become a success that again drives much of the public conversation — with the worst haters self-exiled to the BlueSky misery factory.
Time and again, he’s exemplified the credo you can just do stuff — and made it pay off, creating trillions in wealth.
Plus: Unlike other tech kings, he keeps producing physical wonders — flying cars, rockets that land back at their cradle —in-your-face stuff that makes the brightness of the future viscerally real in a way that no chatbot or online marvel ever will.
Thank you, Elon.