Elon Musk Shares Reassuring News For The First Settlers On Mars: ‘Good Chance You’ll Die’

Elon Musk Says About The First Settlers On Mars Good Chance Youll Die

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SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk, the guy who recently shared the wonderful prediciton that artificial intelligence will more than likely overtake humans within the next five years, is back with some more great news about the future.

Musk, who is hellbent on colonizing Mars and has already sold tickets to the International Space Station for $55 million, said during the virtual “Humans to Mars” conference on Monday there’s a “good chance” that the first settlers on Mars will die.

Despite that minor concern, Musk is still full steam ahead on building a self-sustaining city on Mars by the year 2050.

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In the near term, SpaceX plans for Starship to fly missions to low Earth orbit and then to the Moon. But Mars remains Musk’s long-term goal. The company will reach the red planet “given enough time,” Musk said, but “the question is: How long it will it take us?”

“And getting to Mars, I think, is not the fundamental issue. The fundamental issue is building a base, building a city on Mars that is self-sustaining,” Musk said. “We’re going to build a propellant plant, an initial Mars base – Mars Base Alpha – and then get it to the point where it’s self-sustaining.”

“I want to emphasize that this is a very hard and dangerous, difficult thing, not for the faint of heart,” he added. “Good chance you’ll die, it’s going to be tough going, but it will be pretty glorious if it works out.”

Glorious indeed.

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Musk also discussed SpaceX’s Starship, the craft that he plans to use to transport up to 100 passengers or 100 tons of cargo to the red planet. He just needs to make around a thousand of them.

“We’re making good progress,” Musk revealed on Monday. “The thing that really impedes progress on Starship is the production system… A year ago there was nothing there and now we’ve got quite a lot of production capability. So we’re rapidly making more and more ships.”

But first, he added, they need to “automatically deliver satellites and do hundreds of missions with satellites before we put people on board.”

By the way, where exactly does one store 100 giant spaceships? Eh, I’m sure he’ll figure it out. Then he’ll work on that whole death thing.

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