Elon Musk apparently wasn't joking about a Boring Company flamethrower — it's here

You might think that Elon Musk is a bit of a joker, but in hindsight, basically every joke he'd uttered became a real project. First he joked about boring a tunnel to escape Los Angeles' hideous traffic jams, and the Boring Company was born. Then he said he's going to send a Tesla car to Mars, and it appears that he's actually going to go through with it.

But after he'd sold $600,000 worth of Boring Company hats, Musk said the next Boring Company product would be a flamethrower. Surely he must have been kidding about that one?

Well, think again. The company website now has a "flamethrower" page.

The page is password protected, and the password was at one point "flame," but it was later changed (yes, we've tried "flame1," "flamethrower," and "elonisawesome," no dice). Some folks, however, figured out the original password and yes, the page indeed has an image of a Boring Company-branded flamethrower.

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The text on the page says that the flamethrower in the photo is just a prototype. "Final production flamethrower will be better," it says. But without any specs listed, we're left in the dark. How much action can you get from this baby? What's the range? Does it use napalm? Please, god, let it use napalm.

In any case, the price is touted at $600, and if it ever becomes a real product (I'd normally say no chance but as I've said above, Musk never really kids about this stuff) I bet it'll fly off the shelves.