Musk Ducks Super-Villain Question, Then Suggests Nuking Mars

Elon Musk, chairman and chief executive officer of Tesla Motors.
Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg

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By Dana Hull and Jamie Butters

September 10, 2015 at 5:21 AM UTC

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Elon Musk, whose Twitter photo evokes Dr. Evil, refused to let Stephen Colbert pigeonhole him as super-hero or super-villain.

“I’m trying to do useful things,” said Musk, the billionaire chief executive officer of Tesla Motors Inc. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp., after the television host said he must pick one.