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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: 2) by pvanhoof on Tuesday November 27 2018, @03:29PM

    by pvanhoof (4638) on Tuesday November 27 2018, @03:29PM (#766935) Homepage

    Another thing is, external strife. The more the environment is trying to kill you, the more closely a community will huddle and protect each others. Conversely, I think the less likely people are to tolerate slackers in such situations.

    It might be best to look at say... Canada, when it was first colonized. Not in cities, but in smaller communities.

    I once asked my PO when I was doing contract work at Nokia: why didn't Finland ever send astronauts to the ISS? His reply was that there's no sauna there. Duh. However. He also added that his country is very socialist because, basically, when in the winter it's minus 20 and you can't afford the heating cost: you are dead a few days later. So they need socialism to sustain their population, basically. That, and that this minus 20 is the reason for the sauna's: if everything is broken in your house, you can still spend the night in your sauna and survive.

    I guess it's similar to your Canada-example.

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