Could the world get any more strange?

[accelafine]

As hard as I've tried to find otherwise, this does appear to be true:

''In 2006, the science fiction novel from Dr. von Braun from 1948, which had gone unpublished, was released by a Canadian publisher of space-related historical science fiction as “Project Mars: A Technical Tale.”

Chapter 24 of this science fiction work is titled, “How Mars in Governed.” In one passage of that chapter, the book states: The Martian government was directed by 10 men, the leader of whom was elected by universal suffrage for five years and had the title of “Elon.” Two houses of parliament enacted the laws to be administered by Elon and his cabinet. The upper house was called the Council of the Elders and contained 60 people who were named to those positions for life by Elon.

In the author’s preface to this book, written by Dr. von Braun, he states the purpose (of the publication) is to stimulate interest in space travel.”

I thought perhaps whoever named Musk had read the book and liked the name, but the book wasn't even published until 2006.
Or maybe Musk read it and it planted the idea to go to Mars? But that is doubtful because I think it was only published in German.

[Impenitent]

shake hands and say hello

now we're not strangers

maybe weird or whatever, but not strangers

-Imp

[accelafine]

Smart-arses always welcome and expected.

You can say something is "stranger" instead of "more strange" - they essentially mean the same thing and are both grammatically correct, with "stranger" being a more concise way to express a higher degree of strangeness.

"This situation is getting stranger by the minute."
"That story is stranger than fiction."