Is there any good writeup on the 'geophysical ignorance' anywhere? I checked out some of the comments but they all seemed to be along the lines of 'hydrogen rules, batteries drool', and I can't take hydrogen-car proposals very seriously given Tesla's demonstrated success.
In any case, I read this a few days ago and found it very interesting. He's at least up front about the fanboying, and the overoptimism seems to come from Musk directly (before I read this, I assumed that Musk's talk of going to Mars before 2030 was so much PR intended to keep his mystique alive and stock prices & valuations high and, among other things, deflect attention from the extent to which his companies are still dependent on subsidies; after, I began to take seriously the idea he might actually believe all that), and if nothing else, it seems like this is the closest thing to a comprehensive Musk manifesto - which is interesting all on its own.
I was referring to the grand future presented with Mars terraforming in a ridiculously short time, and talking about terraforming the moons of Jupiter and Saturn.
As for Mars terraforming... we can't control a 200 parts per million problem in our own atmosphere with a whole civilization's resources. Mars has at LEAST a 200,000 parts per million problem, and toxic salts in the soil. And it's covered in crust that has never seen much O2 and will react with and suck it out of the air at a pretty good clip unless compensated for by massive biogenic carbon bur...
Epic work, it's always fascinates me when author explores the topic so deep, that doesn't know where to begin, so finally starts with the whole history of the universe or the existence of human race.
http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/08/how-and-why-spacex-will-colonize-mars.html