Elon Musk is on a roll.
On the weekend of June 23, his company SpaceX successfully completed two back-to-back rocket ship launches.
Then on Wednesday, Musk announced The Boring Company, the infrastructure business he founded in 2016, has completed the first leg of its dig to create a tunnel underneath Los Angeles.
He shared his glee through a series of tweets that proclaimed his love for tunnels and floors.
First he revealed the progress, referring to "Godot," the boring machine named after the Samuel Beckett character.
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 28, 2017
Then this:
I love floors
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 29, 2017
According to Musk's tweets, "They will never let you down." And, "They are so under appreciated." Still:
Not as much as tunnels though
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 29, 2017
"Just try one," Musk urges via Twitter. "It's way better than you think."
Then he gets romantic:
Musk has used social media to share various milestones during the tunnel-boring project, which he is undertaking in an effort to alleviate L.A. traffic. First, he plans to build a tunnel from SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif. to nearby Los Angeles International Airport.
Boring machine segments have been lowered into the starter tunnel. Going through final assembly. Will be a few hundred feet long when complete.
Last month, Musk posted photos of "Godot." Before that he posted a YouTube video of what the completed tunnel system might look like.
Musk has also been posting about his SpaceX projects.
Friday, SpaceX launched and landed a reused rocket carrying the first telecommunications satellite for Bulgaria in a mission that originated at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Then on Sunday, SpaceX launched a rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California that landed on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean in eight minutes. The drone ship the rocket landed on was named "Just Read the Instructions."
Musk put a time-lapse video of the landing on his personal Instagram account.
Sped up version of today's rocket landing on the Droneship Just Read the Instructions (guess it did)
The Sunday launch was part of a project SpaceX is doing for mobile voice and data satellite communications company Iridium. In total, SpaceX will put 75 satellites into orbit for the telecommunications company.
In addition to launching telecommunications satellites, Musk has grand plans for utilizing reusable rockets to make living on Mars feasible — he believes it could bring down the cost to less than buying a house in the U.S. He sees a future where people would save up for a move to Mars like they do a home.
"It gets to the point where almost anyone, if they saved up and this was their goal, could buy a ticket and move to Mars — and given that Mars would have a labor shortage for a long time, jobs would not be in short supply," he says.
On Musk's Instagram, he has also posted things like SpaceX parties and nights out with his new(ish) girlfriend Amber Heard.
SpaceX company party at Paramount to celebrate the first ever reflight of an orbit-class liquid rocket booster. Couldn't be more honored to work with such a great group of people.
There are more intimate shots, like hotel-room selfies, moments with his kids and this picture of him at 17.
On my cousin's farm in Canada at age 17, wearing a hat on a hat. Check out my sweet hammer...
Musk also recently revealed his morning routine.
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This is an updated version of a previously published article.