No way! Don't forget that Musk started out doing "web stuff".

Today you are doing web stuff. Tomorrow...

As someone who bowed out of the SpaceX interview process because he couldn't see himself coding in C++ anymore, and now focuses on web and mobile instead... I wish I shared your confidence right now. That launch gave me goosebumps that no app ever has >.<

Exactly. The biggest motivator for my "web stuff" is this "space stuff".

Same here. The science fiction dreams of our youth won't realize themselves!

Same here, man. I had my startup and failed. But someday I got to do this.

Beautiful

I'm doing web stuff a) because I love it and b) because it'll give me enough capital to bootstrap to the "second stage" (boom boom) of my career - space.

Ain't nothin' wrong with the web. It is rapidly becoming the backbone of communication, business, and industry. Whether it's "web" stuff or "book" stuff or "physical" stuff, just make sure that at the end of the day whatever "stuff" you're working on is something you can be proud of.

Remember Elon made his money from the "easy" stuff first. Make your billion then build some rockets ;p

It truly makes me feel what I do is not worth while at all. It's just amazing how far we have come. Imagine in the future when kids and adults will no longer feel like getting a rocket in to space is any kind of achievement.

> Imagine in the future when kids and adults will no longer feel like getting a rocket in to space is any kind of achievement.

I bet that people in the 60s/70s were thinking the same.

I'm talking about hundreds of years from now.

Sailing across the Atlantic is still an achievement.

Only if you are 12 and don't have to call the coastguard.

I think most Americans don't feel getting a rocket in to space is that amazing anymore. They probably think "been there done that, now what?".

Mars!

Or apply for a Web Developer job at SpaceX - http://www.spacex.com/careers.php

There will be web apps on Mars too. The question is - will they still be slower than native?

It depends, in the best case 15 seconds. But usually a few minutes and when the Mars is behind the sun, you can't use light.

You are not really cut out, but the communication is not interactive and you can only play round based online games. I still hope quantum entanglement can be used as a communication tool.

Quantum entanglement cannot be used to transmit information. This would fundamentally violate relativity and all modern understandings of physics. Additionally, sending a signal to Mars takes much longer than 15 seconds (still over 4 minutes at the closest approach).

It could be used to transmit information, just not faster than the speed of light.

Quantum entanglement might still be used for communication. See quantum cryptography

It's more like 4-20 minutes.

A giant step for mankind. Absolutely amazing.

without paypal (x.com) stuff, SpaceX could never exist.