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  Elon is obsessed with Mars. He founded Tesla to bankroll SpaceX. He kept SpaceX private to maintain full control over the company. He continues having children so he can send them to Mars. He developed Optimus to construct a Mars city in case human birth rates crash. He designed the Cybertruck to tackle the rugged Martian terrain. He introduced Full Self-Driving (FSD) so the Cybertruck could navigate autonomously and Optimus could perceive its surroundings. He launched OpenAI and xAI to equip Optimus with problem-solving skills for Mars. Then, he helped Donald Trump win the presidency and rescued America because it was the only way to safeguard capitalism and global prosperity, ensuring his companies could keep attracting top talent without legal battles or divisive DEI policies creating bloated, inefficient payrolls. Now he’s set to amass up to 1 trillion dollars in wealth—the first person ever to do so—because that’s roughly what it’ll take to cover the flight costs and supplie...

  Letting It Stand Chapter One   The smell of fresh cut wood always did something to Murdoch. Soothed him, maybe. Taking him back across the Atlantic, right into the warmth of his father’s workshop—where coils of wood shavings covered the floor and the spiders in the window corners caught sawdust in their webs. In those days, he could tell each wood by its smell: willow, maple, pine. Thirty years on, that ability was lost, but the smell of drying timber could still ease him. When the timber in question wasn’t hiding what he needed.     Blazes. The wagon jack had to be here somewhere. His search led him to the rear of the shed. Ah, there it was! What ranch hand thought it wise to block access to it with a tower of logs? Perhaps the same one who’d abandoned the old wagon in the furthest pasture, leaving its wheels to succumb to the ravages of rot. He reached between firewood, straining his fingers to catch a grip of the cold metal.   About to wrestle the jack from...