I recommend that Elon Musk be deorbited ASAP

And by "deorbited" I mean "take away his Ketamine".

As seen in the Ars comments, the Ars article is missing a bit of context.

Musk got into a tweet war with the commander of the space station over whether Suni and Butch’s extended stay on the ISS was political. Musk eventually called him a mentally challenged idiot and then followed that up with a call for the ISS to be deorbited ASAP.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/20/elon-musk-iss-deorbit-00205268

Don't pay for this thing that is for everyone and gets science research done, pay that money to me instead! I'm not a government employee, I just am when I'm telling you what to do!

I've said it for about a decade now and I'll continue to say it: Elmo is an incompetent scammer.

Jail him already. Had Trump not won, by his own words, he would have been in jail now. Oh the dreams.

Counterproposal: Deorbit Trump and Musk ASAP.

Now, for legal purposes, let me say I'm not asking for or instructing anyone to do this. But at this point, I think Musk needs a visit from a Luigi-type stochastic terrorist. If one was about to kill oneself, and statistically, there'll be people who read this who are, consider taking out Musk before you go. You'll be a martyr and a celebrated hero across the internet. You'll also be giving a massive gift to humankind.

On a personal level, to anyone reading this: I'm sorry that we're at this spot, it sucks.

Conflict of interest much?

Of course he wants any current or possible competition eliminated! Luckilly it's not up to him or even the USA.

It's the international space station. Not USA space station

Might as well fast track other countries leadership on space. Why not? Fuck Elon btw.

I hate the fact that anyone, anywhere, has to listen to what fElon's "thoughts" on anything are.

I can't remember but who was it that had the contract to deorbit the ISS? Oh yeah, Spaz-X

I mean, it's not just the US that provides funding for that or contributed components. Russia, various European countries, Japan and Canada, I believe, all have some level of funding.

kagis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station_programme

The ISS has been described as the most expensive single item ever constructed.[93] As of 2010, the total cost was US$150 billion. This includes NASA's budget of $58.7 billion ($89.73 billion in 2021 dollars) for the station from 1985 to 2015, Russia's $12 billion, Europe's $5 billion, Japan's $5 billion, Canada's $2 billion, and the cost of 36 shuttle flights to build the station, estimated at $1.4 billion each, or $50.4 billion in total.

Now, granted, Russia had already been talking about killing their support, maybe pulling their modules off to start a new space station for some time, so they're probably more than fine with that.

I can’t believe Musk was able to make me actively antagonistic about space exploration.