As Musk goes to Mars, Bezos heads to Hollywood

Nothing feeds Wall Streets appetite like the prospect of conquering China or Mars.

That is why Teslas TSLA, +0.63% Elon Musk, who hums with electric cars and eclectic daydreams, had such a strange week. Teslas China sales were down, but Mars is looking up.

Like Marco Polo, lets write about China first.

Without offering much in the way of numbers or reasons, Musk said Teslas business in China had declined significantly. He dismissed the country, which holds the hope of business everywhere, as little more than wild card. That was about as detailed as Musk, who incidentally fancies himself a mythic visionary, got on the future of China. How bad is that? Marco Polo spoke with more nuanced characterization about China and that was eight hundred years ago.

In terms of Mars, though, Musk is full of ... specifics.

This week we learned that Musks portal to his intended colonization of Mars will run through the cradle of pretentious coffee. To settle Mars, Musk will first send a drove of engineers in Seattle, home of Starbucks SBUX, +1.29%

What in the wide, wide world of narcissism is it about entrepreneurs and space?

On this note, lets give Musk a break. With oil prices falling, average Americans are about as likely to buy electric cars as they are to swear off Cheez Whiz. Instead, lets talk Virgins VA, +0.56% entrepreneurial whiz Richard Branson Sir Richard to you.

But first, speaking of oil, lets give Mikhail Prokhorov a moment. Reacting to oil-driven currency issues in his home country, the Russian oligarch decided to put the Brooklyn Nets up for sale. What could this lead to? If oil drops any further, Vladimir Putin may be forced to list the Ural Mountains on eBay EBAY, +1.22%

Now back to space. Branson is currently peddling the concept of space tourism hard, despite the November death of one of his test pilots.

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As Musk goes to Mars, Bezos heads to Hollywood