The only positive thing I can say about his purchase of Twitter was that it finally stopped me wasting time on the site.

Despite Musk's… what, breakdown? Radicalisation? Temper tantrums? Whatever that is, SpaceX is still astoundingly fast at both launching stuff to orbit and also making new and better rockets than almost everyone else on the planet combined.

I'd like to see the money that was given to Boeing, instead given to another space startup that might do something interesting.

Spin-launch, perhaps.