Yes, we know most of our readers don’t actually care about outerspace. We also know that most people in general don’t care about space, unless you grab them by the shoulders and shake the [redacted] out of them until they start crying. And even then they’re just pretending to care to get you to stop shaking them. That caveat out of the way, even those with zero interest in — you know, just trying to solve the mysteries of the universe … no big deal — may still find Ashlee Vance’s May 2015 profile of Elon Musk in Bloomberg worth a read for an inside look at the eccentric bn’aire’s startup, especially in light of his plan to colonize Mars that he outlined during a livestreamed event yesterday in Mexico (watch, run time: 1 hr, 40 minutes, or read Bloomberg’s summary of the presentation here).

Vance’s profile gives some background as to how he arrived at where he is today in terms of his plan, which had originally simply entailed sending mice to Mars. From Vance’s profile: “[Robert] Downey [Jr.] had heard about a Howard Hughes-like figure who had constructed his own industrial complex about 10 miles from the Iron Man set… In March 2007, he visited SpaceX’s headquarters in El Segundo and wound up receiving a personal tour from Musk. ‘My mind is not easily blown, but this place and this guy were amazing,’ Downey said.’” (Read Elon Musk’s space dream almost killed Tesla)