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SpaceX: Making Human Life Multiplanetary

posted by takyon on Sunday October 01 2017, @02:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the funding-needed dept.

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This week at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide, Australia, SpaceX CEO and Lead Designer Elon Musk will provide an update to his 2016 presentation regarding the long-term technical challenges that need to be solved to support the creation of a permanent, self-sustaining human presence on Mars.

Making Life Multiplanetary

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @05:24AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @05:24AM (#575775)

    I think the main reason we're treating Martian life, or the potential thereof, so specially is because it'd like our first baby. By the time we find it, and then more, and more, and more - we're just annoyed at how long it's taking to get this one out of the house and onto college. I do not think the sanctity of bacterial life, which may or may not exist, supercedes the value of human expansion. And certainly nobody would disagree with that once we do discover more and more of it. So why not cut to the chase? I'm also phenomenally curious to see if we can prove exogenesis, which would open up an enormous slew of fascinating questions if proven. But at the moment, I think the value of making life multiplanetary should take priority.