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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 27 2018, @01:23AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 27 2018, @01:23AM (#766738)
    Any agriculturally viable location is self-sustaining, as long as we talk about keeping humans alive. (If you raise the goalposts or move the plank, the whole Universe is not enough.) Earth happens to have plenty of good agricultural locations - sunlight, living soil, clean water, pollinating bugs, nutrients, air with proper temperature and speed, as little as possible of ionizing radiation... Before the industrial revolution all humans lived this way, without input from the rest of the world, not just tribes - producers of goods had no efficient means to move around, move goods and trade them, everything was highly localized.

  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday November 27 2018, @01:54AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday November 27 2018, @01:54AM (#766756) Journal

    Any agriculturally viable location can be self-sustaining for the level of population that it can support with said agriculture

    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.