SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said during an interview this week that he has seen no evidence anywhere in the universe that suggests that aliens are real.
Musk told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that “if anyone would know about aliens on Earth it would probably be me.”
“To the best of my knowledge, we see no evidence of conscious life anywhere in the universe,” Musk said. “So it might be there. You know, in physics they call it sort of the Fermi paradox after when Enrico Fermi, he’s an amazing physicist, asked the fundamental question, where are the aliens?”
“I’ve seen no evidence of aliens,” Musk said, adding that if he did he would instantly post about it on Twitter — a company that he purchased late last year and where he currently serves as CEO.
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Such a tweet would set the internet ablaze, joked Musk, who has 130 million Twitter followers.
“It’s the jackpot with some 8 billion likes, you know,” he said. “Next-level jackpot if you find the aliens.”
He said the military, which is often suspected of hiding knowledge about aliens, would be acting in its own interest to disclose an extra-terrestrial threat. He paraphrased a defense official who once said the Pentagon would get carte blanche from taxpayers if it produced an alien.
“You know, how much money do you want?” Musk said. “You got it. They look dangerous. So the fastest way to get a defense budget increase would be to pull out an alien, you know. We’re like, ‘Yeah, I mean, it could be the invasion. It could be arriving any minute. Who knows?'”