Clearly Elon Musk is feeling the pinch of dropping to lowly billionaire status again after he launched a GoFundMe to help with the cost of recovering his SpaceX rocket from the waters of Christmas Island.
He posted the fundraiser to his X account last night and told his followers,
“Australia is making me clean up after myself and I reckon the towing fee is going to run into the many thousands of dollars, help! I’m not a trillionaire, I can’t afford it right now!”
Obviously, many punters came to the impoverished goofballs aid, with one donor calling themselves “Gina” chucking in a sizable $200k, with a comment,
“They should give you Christmas Island for free”
At the time of publishing this article, the fundraiser had gained close to $5M which should at least pay for a pre-pre-feasibility study into the operation to get the rocket back to the USA.
The pre-feasibility study is likely going to cost another $10M before the feasibility study costing about $50M.
Clearly Elon needs a hand!
Speaking of fundraiser, if you’d like to help the BTT consider chucking in some beer money