As you may have already heard against your will, Elon Musk has done more procreating. As Insider reports, he had twins with Shivon Zilis, the director of operations and special projects at his dystopian-lite brain implant company, Neuralink. The two children would bring his total to nine across three mothers.

What is he after? A baseball team? A full rocket ship to Mars and then also the first population of Mars? A cheer team that will win finals this year, so help me, God? A full kitchen in the brigade lineage? A nonet? Maybe none of the above. Hes said quite clearly in the past that intelligent people should procreate, and hes doing his part (are you itching to make the joke Im itching to make? Hehe).

Contrary to what many think, the richer someone is, the fewer kids they have, Musk said once on Twitter. I am a rare exception. Most people I know have zero or one kid.

Some may say its none of your business what the makeup of his three families are. Others may say, Please help me understand who these children are and who their mothers are and also the timeline on which he had these kiddos! To those I say, here is a short guide.

He had his first children with his first wife, Justine Musk, after they were married in 2000. Musk, whos an author, wrote an essay for Marie Claire in which she said he told her during their first dance at their wedding that he was the alpha in the relationship, and said that if she was his employee, he would fire her.

Whatever red flags might have arisen, they still had five children together, twins in 2004 and then triplets in 2006 (the couple had a child who died of sudden infant death syndrome at 10 weeks old, which she also writes about in the Marie Claire essay). One of the twins is named Griffin, and the triplets are Kai, Saxon, and Damian.

The other eldest twin, Vivian, 18, recently filed paperwork to change her first name, to reflect her gender, and her last name, to signal that she doesnt want to be related to my biological father in any way. Musk hasnt commented on his daughters request.

These kids have a special place in our hearts because in a Vanity Fair profile of Grimes, writer Devin Gordon discovered Grimes and Musks second child, their daughter Exa Dark Siderl Musk, when she made baby noises in her Austin home during an interview. Here is the explanation of her name, via Grimes:

Exa is a reference to the supercomputing term exaFLOPS (the ability to perform 1 quintillion floating-point operations per second). Dark, meanwhile, is the unknown. People fear it but truly its the absence of photons. Dark matter is the beautiful mystery of our universe. She texts me a voice memo with the pronunciation of Siderlsigh-deer-ee-elwhich she calls a more elven spelling of sidereal, the true time of the universe, star time, deep space time, not our relative earth time. Its also a nod to her favorite Lord of the Rings character, the powerful Galadriel, who chooses to abdicate the ring.

Link:

A Guide to Elon Musks Many Children | Vanity Fair