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Well, it was only a matter of time really until this happened.
SpaceX owner and founder, Elon Musk, has declared he’s not human – but the truth is, he’s an alien.
Nope, really.
Musk took to the stage on the World Economic Forum in Davos to debate tariffs, the longer term of autonomous driving and the specter of robots or AI surpassing humans.
Nonetheless, in the method, he managed to make an ungainly joke about Greenland in what seemed to be a dig at US President Donald Trump’s controversial Board of Peace.
And declared that he’s, the truth is, an alien.
The Tesla CEO shared the stage with Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, an American investment company, and briefly covered the subject of extraterrestrial life.
During his speech, Musk said to the group: ‘I’m often asked: Are there aliens amongst us? And I’ll say that I’m one.’
Fink asked: ‘You’re from the longer term?
‘They don’t imagine me,’ Musk replied.
‘I believe if anyone would know if there have been aliens amongst us, it might be me.’
Musk added that if alien life did exist, he is certain his greater than 9,000 Starlink satellites he launched into space under his company, SpaceX, could be able to detecting UFOs and other alien activity.
He said: ‘We’ve 9,000 satellites up there, and never once have we needed to manoeuvre around an alien spaceship.’
‘Bottom line is we’d like to assume that life and consciousness are extremely rare, and it’d only be us.
‘If that’s the case, we’d like to do every little thing possible to be sure that the sunshine of consciousness is just not extinguished.’
Not everyone has welcomed Musk’s appearance on the World Economic Forum.
British political campaign group named Everyone Hates Elon voiced its opposition to Musk, calling for the world’s wealthiest people to pay tax.
The group unfurled a 400 square metre banner on a field directly below the flightpath taken by helicopters on their method to Davos.
Featuring pictures of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, the banner read: ‘Hey Davos billionaires: shut up and pay your tax.’
Yet, it appears that evidently Musk was not the just one turning heads at this 12 months’s summit.
The meeting was overshadowed this week by Trump’s threats to seize Greenland, followed by a dramatic retreat from that push.
He later announced his ‘board of peace’, which was initially envisioned as a small group of world leaders overseeing the Gaza ceasefire, but has morphed into something much more ambitious.
Scepticism about its membership and mandate has led some traditional US allies to not commit – including the UK.
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