People have been trolling Elon Musk for this prediction he made 14 years ago and it’s one Musk moment definitely worth saluting
For a man like Elon Musk, promising results is easy. It’s delivering them that’s the hard part.
Case in point: Eagle-eyed Bluesky user Wild Geerters noticed this old YouTube post of Elon Musk talking to the Wall Street Journal. In the screenshot, Elon sits awkwardly for an interview above a headline declaring that he will put a man on Mars within 10 years.
The only problem: the video was posted 14 years ago.
Happy 14th anniversary to this youtube video
— Wild Geerters (@steinkobbe.bsky.social) December 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Anyone with a calculator can see that we have blown past the deadline. We aren’t any closer to putting a man on Mars than we are to riding around in flying cars.
Many people flocked to social media to congratulate Elon on this special occassion.
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It's getting funnier with every passing year bsky.app/profile/stei…
— Comfortably Numb (@numb.comfortab.ly) December 27, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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I haven't been following this story. Did he end up founding the luxury Martian colony, run by dancing robots, which would prove to be the salvation of humanity?
— Starshark (@starshark.bsky.social) December 27, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Hmm. I guess not all nazis are good at space programs.
— dan-marsh.bsky.social (@dan-marsh.bsky.social) December 27, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Not only does he have no shame about how stupidly wrong this claim was, he amped up the stupidly wildly wrong claim to a million people on Mars in 20 years.
— epistemic crisis actor (@insaanity.bsky.social) December 27, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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"you really think someone would go on the internet and tell lies" etc
— Godspeed You! Woke Moralists (@dashwallkick.bsky.social) December 27, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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He’s struggling to put a man in a Cybertruck.
— Donald McCarthy (@void-d00m.bsky.social) December 27, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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He struggles to get people out of a burning Tesla
— The Little Gentleman (@jerseymick.bsky.social) December 27, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Remember this next time he makes his next regular bold claim
"We'll have 50 million robots in people's homes by 2030"
— Pete Hotchkiss (@petehotchkiss.bsky.social) December 27, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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So ketamine isn't a new thing for him.
— Schrodinger's other cat (@88elephants.bsky.social) December 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Is the Man on Mars in the room right now, Mr. Musk?
— Pokermask (@pokermask.xyz) December 27, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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His rockets can’t even leave Earth’s orbit without blowing up! The dumbest so called “genius” of our lifetime!! I really do wish, as Americans, we give up the idea that being rich equals intelligence
— RainbowFish (@rainbowfish33.bsky.social) December 27, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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He put a man in the white house so that's something
— Shihab S Joi (@shihabsjoi.bsky.social) December 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Literally everything that comes out of his mouth is a lie. And yet the media continue to buy his lies. The latest? He has 1000 Tesla robotaxis on the street in Austin. There are less then 40 of them.
If Muskrat says "it's a nice day outside," it's guaranteed to be pouring rain.
— Mike Friedman (@mfriedmannola.bsky.social) December 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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The nice thing about Bsky is we don’t have stans that come in to point out that “he just said ‘within 10 years,’ he never said he was starting then lol he totally could do it in 10 years lmao what have YOU ever built”
— Dave the Enchanter (@writesdave.bsky.social) December 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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is there any musk prediction/promise from the last 10 years that became true?
— EINS78 (@eins78.com) December 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
You can watch the full interview here, if you want another laugh at the final boss of Confidently Incorrect.
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