SpaceX CEO Elon Musk was a guest in Sunday's episode of The Simpsons, and a jab from Lisa, who says that "for a man who likes electric cars he sure burns a lot of rocket fuel," seems to have hit the right note, compelling real-life Musk to give the world a quick rocketry lesson on Twitter
Yes, it's coming from a cartoon character, but it's an interesting remark — Elon Musk is also CEO of electric car company Tesla, trying his hardest to prove that gas-guzzling cars are the stuff of the past. Yet, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket's nine engines burn tens of thousands of gallons of kerosene per launch
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