Elon Musk says there's a 70% chance he personally moves to Mars
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https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/26/elon-musk-says-there-is-a-70percent-probability-he-will-go-to-mars.html?yptr=yahoo
SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said there is a "70 percent" likelihood that he will personally go to Mars, speaking in an interview with Axios published Sunday.
Musk's rocket company has "recently made a number of breakthroughs that I am just really fired up about," he said. He did not elaborate on those new developments, instead focusing
on his Mars colonization effort. "I'm talking about moving there," Musk said.
Musk recently began speaking about his personal aspirations to fly in space, as he said in September he might join Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa on a trip around the moon
planned for 2023. When SpaceX announced Maezawa as the first person to sign with the company for a private flight, Musk said he was "not sure" when he would go.
"Maybe we'll both be on it," Musk said in September, after Maezawa repeated that Musk should join him on the lunar visit.
SpaceX's plans for taking humans to the moon and Mars hinge on its development of Starship: A massive rocket the size of a 32 story building and capable of carrying dozens of
people. Starship, formerly known as Big Falcon Rocket (BFR), is the key to Musk's vision of creating a permanent, self-sustaining human presence on Mars.
Musk said in the Axios interview that he would probably go once SpaceX gets "the price per ticket to maybe around a couple hundred thousand dollars." Despite the high fare price,
Musk laughingly denied that the colonization of Mars would serve as an escape from Earth for rich people. "Your probability of dying on Mars is much higher than Earth," Musk said.
He compared a Mars trip to signing up for Ernest Shackleton's journey to the Antarctic in the early 1900s. "It's gonna be hard, there's a good chance of death, going in a little can
through deep space, you might land successfully, once you land successfully you'll be working non-stop to build the base – so not much time for leisure – and once you get there, even
after all this, there's a very harsh environment, so there's a good chance you'll die there. We think you can come back but we're not sure," Musk said.
"Now does that sound like an escape hatch for rich people?" he added. Asked why he would still go, Musk compared it to the adventurous desire to climb the world's highest mountain,
even at the risk of death. "People die on Everest all the time. They like doing it for the challenge," Musk said.
I would to if I owned SpaceX. Hell yeah.
Then he'll be able to smoke weed and shitpost memes with interplanetary immunity.
It would be an honor to be the founding group of a Mars colony
I came in wanting to get a slam at Musk, but honestly, if you had the funds and experts on your back, who wouldn't?
Come on, really? I mean I don't speak for everybody but personally I really like trees and wildlife and cities and my friends and family and stuff...
I wonder how he hopes to accomplish surviving more than a few years in such an inconceivably harsh environment.
yeah, in all seriousness it's not something to generalize since very few would actualy want to ditch their roots like I implied that I personally would. my bad.
Maybe he doesn't, all that ambien and red wine hints at some underlying issues, maybe it's the ultimate suicide
To be honest, it would most definitely be the most spectacular 'going out in style' death of all human beings in existence. until somebody throws themselves at a black hole with a GoPro, that is.
he just wants to accompany Grimes back to her home planet
Can't wait for the first human word spoken on the surface of Mars to be a meme/scifi reference
Probably anyone who doesn't want to spend the rest of their lives with the same few people in a claustrophobic habitat where going outside kills you.
then this happens:
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Elon Musk is like Howard Hughes with modern technology and a lot more money.
I don't think someone like Elon should go there anyway, you need more straight forward and levelled out people to make life on Mars a reality, not some company owner, people with skills to make a living over there instead and set up a colony properly instead of some politician or equally useless cunt, keep them here but send the more useful Humans there, don't fuck things up before they even start.
So what you're telling me is that basically mars is a shitty rust clone with nearly nothing but rocks n shit around.
What he really means is 0% because there's no way in hell he'll give up the cozy life on this planet.
Let him and his army of soyboys have Mars. I want
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I actually really like the idea of floating cities on venus, but supposedly the idea is a lot more flawed then the popsci articles paint it as. The good height for living comfortably with the right temperature and pressure is about 50 km above the surface of venus, but the heavy clouds dont disperse until circa 65 km. This means no solar energy and living with permanent acidic fog outside.
I mean shit on Musk and rich people all you want, but I’m pretty sure the guy works like a madman, and I wouldn’t exactly call that “cozy. Obviously he has money in excess, but I doubt he’s the kind of person who would object just because he couldn’t bring his Juicero.
i dont really understand the obsession that the first words anywhere should be something "cool" or "unique"
honestly if i set foot on mars id probably just be like "holy fuck im actually here finally"
This is like the start of every fucking Ayn Rand novel.
that's a 20th century mindset. Really we can ship tens of thousands of people's worth of genetic material in a lead lined ice box
unfortunately I think the majority of people that end up on mars after some time spent colonizing will be people like Elon Musk - those who can afford to escape whatever hell the Earth is descending to, while those of us stuck here get caught in the inevitable mass-migrations and resource wars as the planet falls apart.
this
living on mars where you see nothing but red rock would just be fucking awful
Why would I want to go to Mars when i can drive over to Arizona.
mars will (hopefully) have some smart people
I wonder if Elon would honestly be a good fit for space travel so early on. It won't be fun or anything. Unless he went out of his way to set up a satellite capable of somehow connecting to Earth (and probably still getting speeds better than your average farmer) then it'll basically be solitude and work with very little room for 'entertainment.' And given some of his controversies I dunno if that fits a person like Elon.
all that said can you fucking imagine if the first person on mars is alive and its god damn elon musk
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