Inc. names Elon Musk Entrepreneur of the Year (via spacetoday.net):

The goal of putting people on Mars is no joke. Musk believes that over the four-and-a-half-billion-year history of planet Earth, a dozen or so events have truly mattered. Edging forward in his chair, he ticks off a few: "There was the advent of single-celled life, multicelled life, the development of plants, then animals," he says. "On this time scale, I'd put the extension of life to another planet slightly above the transition from life in the oceans to life on land."

Or in Biblical terms, Genesis, then Exodus. As Moses says, "Let my people go". Musk is putting his growing fortune and celebrity on the line to make space settlement happen. Musk's history of the world sounds like the preamble to Rand's Passover-style celebration of when we first left the planet, Evoloterra. Rand, ever thought of expanding Evoloterra into a full religion?

Yes, I've thought about it a lot, as have the other coauthors. It would be a lot of work.

Even if you crib from Exodus and the Book of Mormon? How much cash to do a weekly prayer book? None of the major religions have done much with space since Genesis 22:17. It could go gold. Probably best to start on the internet--the whole minion thing seems pretty hard on start ups. Wednesdays off and a church pension system for all tithers?

Yeah, but then, you could start soliciting donations from bra^H^H^H loyal worshippers. Next thing you'd know, you'd be taking in billions, amassing thousands of mindless followers (including Hollywood stars), and bumping off those who dare claim that you made the whole thing up.

Will L. "Rand" Hubbard offer 'audits' for a price?

Make a real spaceship that looks like a DC-8 that really flies into space?

Feats of strength at Christmas?

You could start Sicentismology, Scientology for the rest of us.

Scientistic Festivanis would be the new name of the space faring man, screw that homo whatever shit!