Subject: Re: Line of Succession Question
You're kidding, right? Elon Musk? The guy who got super rich by having lots of frivolities like selling flamethrowers, launching a Roadster into space, making a cologne with the odor of burnt hair, diversions into solar roofs, beer steins and belt buckles, his Boring tunnel projects, fart noises in the Tesla infotainment system?

You're out over your skis a bit here.

Let's say you own a rocket company and you're going to do a big orbital test. Rocket dynamics demand that you have some kind of payload in the upper stage fairing to balance out the system.

So you could
A. Stick a bunch of steel plates up there
B. Take your car and put a stuffed astronaut in it, and launch it into the sun

Which one generates more publicity, more eyeballs and more free coverage for your company?

That exercise was hardly a waste.