In a post on the social media platform, the X’s owner wrote alongside a laughing emoji, “I haven’t fwiw [for what it’s worth] “I donated my sperm willingly” 😂”
He also said that no one at SpaceX has been instructed to work on building a city on Mars. He said, “When people asked to do this, I said we should focus on getting there first.”
Musk’s idea of ’multi-planetary’ life
Elon Musk said in 2018 that he was “on a mission to put a self-sustaining city on Mars so that life (of all species) can continue, so if a meteor hits Earth like it killed the dinosaurs, or World War III happens and we destroy ourselves, we can do that.”
His goal is to make life “multi-planetary” – this means life expanding to other planets. In an old article, Musk also explains that “Why is it important to create multiplanetary life?, See here
Making the idea even more interesting, Musk said on July 11 that science fiction author Isaac “Asimov’s Foundation series was part of the inspiration for making life/consciousness multiplanetary.”
“Being multiplanetary greatly extends the potential lifespan of a civilization,” he said.
Musk’s idea to make life possible on Mars
In 2020, Elon Musk explained how humans would initially live on the red planet. He said, “Life will first be in glass domes. Eventually, it will be terraformed to support life like Earth.”
According to the National Space Society, terraforming (literally, “Earth-shaping”) a planet, moon, or other body is the hypothetical process of deliberately modifying its atmosphere, volatile components, temperature, surface topography, or ecology to resemble Earth’s environment and make it habitable for life.
“Terraforming will be too slow to be relevant in our lifetimes. However, we could establish a human base there in our lifetimes. At least a future spacefaring civilization that discovers our ruins will be impressed that humans have gotten this far,” Musk had said.
Referring to the glass dome idea, the New York Times in its latest report quoted “two people” as saying that “the colony would be centred on a giant dome for community living, with smaller domes surrounding it”.
“Let the Martians decide their own future” He had said it.
Mars city ‘plan’ and starship
Earlier this year, an X account called “Tesla Owners Silicon Valley” posted on social media, “Starship is the greatest rocket ever built and it will take us to Mars.”
Responding to this post, Elon Musk said that a “game plan is being made to send a million people to Mars”. He further added, “Civilisation can only overcome the single-planet Great Filter if Mars can still survive when Earth’s supply ships stop coming.”
Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to build a fleet of Starships capable of carrying people and cargo around the solar system, though transportation might not be the biggest challenge in colonizing Mars. Independent informed of.
SpaceX’s website notes that its Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket — collectively called Starship — are a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars and beyond.
But why only Mars?
SpaceX says Mars is one of Earth’s closest habitable neighbors, with an average distance of 140 million miles. The company further added that Mars is about half the distance from the sun as Earth, so it still receives a good amount of sunlight.
SpaceX says it’s a little cold, but we can warm it up.
SpaceX further explained, “Its atmosphere is composed primarily of CO2, with some nitrogen and argon and a few other trace elements, which means we can grow plants on Mars by compressing the atmosphere. Gravity on Mars is about 38% of Earth’s gravity, so you can lift heavy things and move around. Plus, the day here is very close to Earth’s day.”
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Published: July 14, 2024, 08:01 AM IST
