WIRED stopped by the new Tesla Diner in Hollywood to try a $17 hotdog, watch a humanoid serve popcorn, and talk to people who still stan Elon Musk.

Renuka Veerasingam believes Elon Musk is humanity’s last hope. “I want to go to Mars, and he is going to take us,” she says. “Space is the final frontier. It’s in our DNA to find the final frontier—to keep going until we get to the edge.”

Though Veerasingam is lightyears from Mars, she is currently on the edge of Santa Monica Boulevard and North Orange Drive, in the heart of Hollywood, for the opening of the new Tesla Diner, modeled in the likeness of the same kind of retro-futuristic space station she one day dreams of inhabiting on the red planet.

An actress who lives in Toluca Lace, Veerasingam wanted to see Musk’s latest window into the future up close. Every one of the 200-plus people assembled have their reason for coming, many seemingly curious to find out what the seemingly Midas touch of Musk has ...