Elon Musk mocks NASA by posting a photo of Will Smith hitting Chris Rock.

Tesla inventor and billionaire Elon Musk ridiculed NASA with a photo of Hollywood actor Will Smith punching his colleague Chris Rock.The Tesla CEO did not give a caption, instead leaving it up to Twitter followers. It has received over 430,000 likes and over 35,000 retweets so far.

Musk’s tweet referred to NASA’s DART spacecraft slamming into a distant asteroid at supersonic speed on Monday in the world’s first test of a planetary defence system designed to avoid an apocalyptic meteorite collision with Earth.

Humanity’s first attempt to modify the path of an asteroid or any celestial body occurred 10 months after DART was launched, in a NASA webcast from the mission operations centre outside Washington, DC launched.Smit smacked Rock after his Oscars joke equating the actor’s shaved-haired wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, to GI Jane. It’s unclear whether Rock knew of Pinkett Smith’s alopecia diagnosis.