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Elon Musk Says There's a '70 Percent' Chance He'll Move to Mars

posted by Fnord666 on Monday November 26 2018, @10:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-forget-to-say-goodbye dept.

martyb writes:

Elon Musk Says There's a '70 Percent' Chance He'll Move to Mars:

Elon Musk has talked about personally heading to Mars before, but how likely is he to make the trip, really? Well, he just put a number on it. In an interview for the Axios on HBO documentary series, Musk said there was a "70 percent" chance he'll go to Mars. There have been a "recent number of breakthroughs" that have made it possible, he said. And as he hinted before, it'd likely be a one-way trip -- he expects to "move there."

The executive also rejected the idea that traveling to Mars could be an "escape hatch for the rich" in its current form. He noted that an ad for going to Mars would be "like Shackleton's ad for going to the Antarctic," which (though likely not real) made clear how dangerous and the South Pole journey was. Even if you make it to Mars, you'll spend all your time building the base and struggling to survive harsh conditions, Musk said. And while it might be possible to come back, it's far from guaranteed. As with climbing Everest, Musk believes it's all about the "challenge."

The interview is available on YouTube.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 26 2018, @11:12PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 26 2018, @11:12PM (#766692)

    Musk is a fairly smart boy, but good grief is he in need of some psychological software updates.

    I have a strong suspicion that Musk would collapse mentally if he was denied public attention for an extended period of time.

    He is a sad case.

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by takyon on Tuesday November 27 2018, @01:51AM (1 child)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Tuesday November 27 2018, @01:51AM (#766754) Journal

    I have a strong suspicion that Musk would collapse mentally if he was denied public attention for an extended period of time.

    He is a sad case.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 27 2018, @05:10AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 27 2018, @05:10AM (#766818)

      Life imitating art? [youtube.com]

  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday November 27 2018, @09:40PM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Tuesday November 27 2018, @09:40PM (#767053) Homepage Journal

    grandiosity is a common symptom of bipolar mania.

    While in my own case depression is my most-common symptom, there are a lucky few who are manic all the time.

    They're all productive workers, and immensely creative: the link between Manic Depression and Creativity is now clinically proven through such methods as Kaye Redfield Jamison's postdoc study of successful London playwrights; they are manic depressive far out of proportion to the general population. Jamison's criteria for "successful" was that they playwrights had to have had at least one of their scripts performed in a London theatre.

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