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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.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday November 27 2018, @12:41AM (12 children)
(Score: 3, Touché) by richtopia on Tuesday November 27 2018, @01:20AM (2 children)
North Korea? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juche#Economics [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 27 2018, @01:29AM (1 child)
He said "Perfectly self-sustained". North Korea is far from it.
It's not because they claim "Juche" that they are... Similarly, they are called the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea", they're barely 1/8th of it: They're not democratic, they're not of the people, they are not a republic and they're only one half of Korea.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 27 2018, @02:31AM
The better half.
(Score: 3, Informative) by suburbanitemediocrity on Tuesday November 27 2018, @01:20AM (4 children)
Many many places. Most places on Earth in fact. Even aboriginal Australia and northern Canada had long term self sustaining groups with little to no external trade.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday November 27 2018, @01:43AM (3 children)
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday November 27 2018, @05:29AM
They still can do it, if left alone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 27 2018, @07:14AM (1 child)
Yah, "had" because it turns out iff you show up with a NorthMart and kill all the caribou and sell them booze out the ear, people get onto that teat.
Economic and cultural slavery, in this instance, is still slavery.
Those living conditions could recur again if you know, we don't kill all the whales and cariboo.
Now get the fuck off my lawn, invader.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday November 27 2018, @10:03AM
Except that the adjectives indicate otherwise. It's interesting how often people bring up these false equivalences.
I'm not killing them. Go bug the people who actually are doing that.
Too late for that. I'm just as native to my region as you are to yours.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 27 2018, @01:23AM (1 child)
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday November 27 2018, @01:54AM
FTFY. Hong Kong, for an extreme example, is not self-sustaining because it has orders of magnitude more people in the spot than can be supported with local agriculture at current technology levels.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 27 2018, @05:11AM (1 child)
Right [wikipedia.org]
The thing is you don't know if they reached or not the happiness, you only know that you are entitled to pursue it. From this perspective, they may well be ahead of you.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday November 27 2018, @10:13AM