When Elon met Alice… With lots of laughs, agreements without disagreements, spills and obvious mutual appreciation, Elon Musk’s interview started out like a promising date between two nervous teenagers (she even forgave him when he got her name wrong) comments Politico.

But by the end of the night, Elon Musk’s live chat with the far-right German politician Alice Weidel not only had he escaped, but he had gone… out of planetary orbit, into a strange dialogue about communist Hitler, the existence of God, and why “future Martians” will one day save the Earth.

Musk’s decision last month to back Weidel’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) party sparked a firestorm of criticism from European politicians. But he fended them off – despite the threat of an EU regulatory investigation – by offering Weidel an important step social networking platform X so that it can reach out to German voters ahead of the February 23 election.

Weidel wants to succeed Olaf Scholz as Germany’s chancellor, and while that scenario seems far-fetched, her party is garnering significant support and is currently in second place with about 20% in the polls.

In the 85-minute, sometimes surreal-themed conversation, Donald Trump’s business elite, who is the boss of Tesla, a fan of space travel and the world’s richest man, reiterated his sincere support for Weidel, arguing that her party was the best hope for Germany’s salvation.

Then the situation got out of hand. Here’s a rundown of the weirdest bits of the conversation between the X owner and the AfD co-chair:

1. You say “Weidel”, I say whatever

“Welcome to the conversation with Alice Weidel, who is currently the leading candidate to rule Germany, I think,” Musk stated, when he opened the chat to X. Unfortunately, he mispronounced her name as “Widdle.”

2. Hitler was… a communist

Musk decided to show off his knowledge of German history, including “Hitler and everything else.” He asked Weidel to comment on the fact that the German media is treating the AfD like it is “somehow connected to Nazism or something.”

“Thank you for this question. He was a communist and considered himself a socialist” Weidel replied. And keep going: “The greatest success after that terrible time in our history was to label Adolf Hitler as right-wing and conservative. It was quite the opposite. He was not conservative. He was not a libertarian. He was a communist socialist type. Dot. No more comment on this. And we are the exact opposite.”

3. Hitler censored the media to succeed

Weidel made the rather odd argument that Hitler “would never have been successful” if he hadn’t first “shut down free speech,” Politico comments. His party won the most seats in the German elections of 1933. After that he began promoting what Musk, a free speech fundamentalist, called “extreme censorship.”

4. Save Germany, vote AfD

Weidel cited the Politico report that revealed how 150 EU officials will monitor their conversation to see if Musk was breaking the bloc’s digital rules by giving her party an advantage. Musk clearly isn’t worried.

“The American people demand change,” he said. “My recommendation to citizens in Germany is to do the same… I really recommend unconditionally to the people to vote in favor of the AfD”.

In case those Brussels officials didn’t get the point, he added: “I think Alice Weidel is a very reasonable person. And hopefully people can understand just from this discussion, that it’s not like anything outrageous is being proposed, just common sense. So, actually, as I said publicly, I think only the AfD can save Germany.”

5. We’re all going to die!

Weidel took the opportunity to ask the “brains” of SpaceX why they focus on developing plans for trips to Mars with so much money and attention. Several… light years later, he replied: Because dinosaurs “they didn’t have spaceships.”

“A lot of people think there must be aliens, but I haven’t seen any evidence of aliens”Musk explained. There is a high probability that an event will occur that will end humanity – a “giant meteor” falling to Earth like it did for the dinosaurs, or a nuclear war. “There is some risk.”

“To be clear, if we are a ‘monoplanetary’ species, it’s just a matter of time before we’re gone.”

This is the kind of discouraging comment that can “ruin” the mood on a date. Weidel listened in silence. But Musk quickly tried to make amends with a more… long-term, positive outlook.

“I think we can send unmanned spacecraft to Mars in about two years.”

6. Oh, and we need another planet

We have a lot of work ahead of us, however, if we are going to save the human race, Musk said. He estimated it would take approx 1 million tons of material and 1 million people to make life self-sustaining on the red planet. But once that small hurdle is overcome, humanity will be laughing—almost as much as Weidel and Musk.

“My guess is that there will be cases where the future Martians will actually come and take us they will help and save us when there is an emergencyas America helped save the rest of the world in World Wars 1 and 2 and the Cold War,” he said.

“As for humanity, we don’t want to be one of those boring one-planet civilizations. Every self-respecting civilization must to have at least two planets”.

Elon Musk invites Alice Weidel of German AfD party to an interview ahead of elections

7. Do you believe in God?

Weidel followed Musk’s “solo” about the end of humanity with a classic, deep and meaningful question usually reserved for the end of the night. “Do you believe in God?” she asked.

“I’m open to believing things that are proportional to the information I receive,” he replied, showing that he was “open to the idea” of God. “I try to form my opinions based on what I learn… And as I learn more, I aspire to change my opinions.”

Then again, it wasn’t perhaps the thoughtful literary response that Weidel’s question deserved. But she didn’t mind. “Yes, same here,” he said. “To be honest, I’m still looking.”

8. Life, the universe and everything

Musk wanted to develop the existential theme more. “I am curious about the nature of the universe. I would say that I “subscribe” to the philosophy of (author) Douglas Adams as described in Hitchhiking the Galaxy. In that book, the Earth was somehow a giant computer trying to answer the question “what is the meaning of life?” And that goes back to 42 and what does 42 mean?’ (p.s. in the book the number 42 is the famous answer to the “supreme question of life, the universe and everything”).

“And actually the answer is the easy part and the question is the hard part. That was really very enlightening for me, because I had kind of an existential crisis when I was 12 or 13 about the meaning of life. I read the religious texts and philosophy of the bookstore. I was reading Schopenhauer,” he said, “which is a bit depressing if you read it as a kid.”

9. War. What is it for? (for Ukraine)

It wasn’t all ‘tea and sympathy’. Musk and Weidel also discussed the conflict in the Middle East and how the war in Ukraine could escalate into nuclear Armageddon. “I want to have strong leaders in Germany,” Weidel pointed out. “This is also my hope for Donald Trump and your administration, that you end this terrible war (in Ukraine), this senseless death of young people every day, as soon as you can, because the Europeans can’t.”

Musk reassured her: “I think President Trump will resolve this conflict very quickly. As you point out, it’s been at a bit of a standstill for a few years now. And all that has happened in recent years is that hundreds of thousands of people die, but without any profit. And the longer this conflict continues, the more Ukraine weakens in relation to Russia. Ukraine is a much smaller country. He simply cannot afford losses vis-à-vis Russia … the longer this goes on, the worse it is for Ukraine.”

Alice Weidel