Today , note space cadet ( in every sense of the phrase ) Elon Muskrevealed his planto colonize Mars . He also basically recite us to train to give-up the ghost for him . Cool melodic theme , Elon !
“ The risk of fatality will be high , ” Musk told the consultation in Guadalajara , Mexico , of the SpaceX mission to the Red Planet . “ There ’s no way around it . It would be basically , are you prepared to drop dead ? If that ’s okay , you ’re a candidate for run . ” He add , “ The chance of death is quite high on the first deputation . ” As if the all - consuming cold squeeze that is death was not something humans have been conditioned to fear for our entire existence .
This was n’t Musk ’s only reference to the inevitable descent into nothing , however . He also noted at the very beginning of his intro — presumptively to warm up the audience — that we moderately much have two options as a society .
“ I do n’t have an immediate doomsday prophecy,”he saidat the beginning of the talk . ( Are you lying , Elon ? ) “ One way of life is to stay on Earth forever , and there will be some extinction event . The choice is to become a multi - terrestrial mintage , which I hope you will accord is the right way of life to go . ”
“ Some extinction event . ” Lovely !
Musk also touch to his own fallibility , noting that he ’d have to leave the company in good hands before doing anything disturbed and potentially life - threatening — like going to Mars himself .
Well , at least Musk is lumping himself somewhere into the death pool .
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