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Elon Musk’s first name shows up in 1953 book about colonizing Mars – CNET
The freaky coincidence earned social buzz back in December, and now it’s back in the news.
Elon Musk poses on the red carpet of the Axel Springer Award on Dec. 1, 2020 in Berlin.
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Who doesn’t love a weird, 60-plus-year-old coincidence? As if there aren’t enough headlines about Elon Musk at the moment, a connection between his name and a decades-old book that seemed to eerily predict the billionaire’s involvement in Mars exploration resurfaced this week.
In the 1950s, German-turned-American scientist Wernher von Braun (yes, the Nazis’ leading rocket man),…
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