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

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: 2) by HiThere on Monday October 02 2017, @04:38PM (1 child)

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 02 2017, @04:38PM (#575959) Journal

    Sorry. With current technology the only planet we could reasonably try to terraform is Earth. And that's dangerous...not that we aren't doing the equivalent without thinking about it.

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday October 02 2017, @05:41PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday October 02 2017, @05:41PM (#576014)

    Sorry. With current economic focus the only planet we could reasonably try to terraform is Earth, and we're doing a poor job of that within current economic priorities.

    FTFY

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