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Elon Musk addresses TIME-TRAVELER rumors as he breaks silence on eerie Mars ‘prediction’ in obscure 1950s science book
An old prophecy about the billionaire is ever-closer to becoming true
ELON Musk has broken his silence on rumors that he is a time-traveler sparked by an eerier prediction from the 1950s.
Musk, 53, finally addressed the prophecy about him colonizing Mars made by an obscure 1953 science book.
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The mystery stems from a sci-fi novel called "Project Mars" written by a famous German rocket scientist, Werner von Braun.
In the book, von Braun predicts that humanity will colonize Mars and the leader of the planet will be called "Elon".
Believing it was just a coincidence made in the translation process, a curious reader even dug out the original German manuscript - only to discover that von Braun did indeed name the Mars leader as Elon.
Musk was clearly spooked out by the uncanny connection as he took to X to ask: "How can this be real?"
He also joked: "No matter how often I tell people that I’m a 5000-year-old alien time traveler, they don’t believe me."
One passage in the book imagines the government that would be set up to run Mars as humans established themselves on the Red Planet.
Von Braun wrote: "The Martian government was directed by ten men, the leader of whom was elected by universal suffrage for five years and entitled 'Elon'.
"Two houses of parliament enacted the laws to be administered by the Elon and his cabinet."
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Musk is well-known for his ambitions to help humans settle on Mars with his SpaeX rocket technology.
In 2021 he tweeted: "Make humanity a multi-planet species!"
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Earlier this month, the billionaire ruled out returning to the moon before our neighboring plant: "No, we’re going straight to Mars. The Moon is a distraction."
Then President Trump, in his inauguration speech last week, said America would “pursue our manifest destiny into the stars” and “plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars".
And these plans are popular with the public.
A 2023 poll found that 57 percent of Americans favored sending astronauts to Mars, which is a much higher rating than some of his other executive orders, such as the Jan 6 pardons.
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Musk has formed a close bond with the new President and holds a position in his government as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), so any Mars-based plans are bound to involve him.
Von Braun was one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century and a key figure in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany.
Following World War 2, he was secretly moved to the United States and became a pioneer of space technology for Nasa.
Project Mars may have been science fiction, but it included scientific calculations for how humans might travel to Mars.
This is not the first time people have picked up on the uncanny connection between the book and the billionaire.
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In 2020, one X user wrote: "Speaking about destiny, did you know that Von Braun's 1953 book "Mars Project" reference a person named Elon that would bring humans to Mars? Pretty nuts."
This is the first time that Musk has broken his silence about the time-traveler label, however.
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