Elon Musk Shares Vision Of Mars As 'life Insurance' For Humanity: 'multi-planet Civilization'

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is prioritizing his imagination for life connected Mars arsenic his clip pinch the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) comes to an end.

Musk sat down pinch Fox News big Jesse Watters for an question and reply wherever he shared nan DOGE team’s findings regarding authorities waste, fraud and abuse, and expanded connected his thought of Mars colonialism arsenic "life insurance" for humanity.

"Mars is life security for life collectively. So, eventually, each life connected Earth will beryllium destroyed by nan sun. The sun is gradually expanding, and truthful we do astatine immoderate constituent request to beryllium a multi-planet civilization because Earth will beryllium incinerated," Musk said successful an question and reply that aired Monday connected "Jesse Watters Primetime."

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Elon Musk, main executive serviceman for Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX), speaks during nan 67th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) successful Guadalajara, Mexico, connected Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016. (Photographer: Susana Gonzalez/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The sun, a medium-sized star pinch a radius of astir 435,000 miles, will yet tally retired of power and grow into a reddish elephantine prima erstwhile it starts to die, according to a NASA truth sheet.

The authorities abstraction agency noted that nan reddish elephantine prima could go truthful ample that it would engulf Mercury, Venus and perchance Earth arsenic well, though nan sun's lifespan, according to scientists, will past different 5 cardinal years.

Musk explained that his imagination for Mars is much than conscionable landing connected nan satellite and planting flags and laying footprints; it’s astir creating a self-sustaining city.

This image made disposable by NASA shows an illustration of NASA's Perseverance rover landing safely connected Mars. ((Xinhua/NASA/JPL-Caltech via Getty Images))

"The basal fork successful nan roadworthy of destiny [is] that Mars is sufficiently self-sustaining and tin turn by itself if nan resupply ships from Earth extremity coming for immoderate reason, whether that is because civilization died pinch a bang aliases a whimper," he told Watters. "If nan resupply ships are basal for Mars to survive, past we person not created life insurance."

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"We've not created life security for life collectively. So that's nan cardinal constituent successful nan early wherever [the] destiny of life, arsenic we cognize it, will everlastingly beryllium affected, is erstwhile Mars becomes self-sustaining."

Musk wrote successful a station connected his societal media level X successful mid-March that a SpaceX Starship will depart for nan reddish satellite astatine nan extremity of 2026, carrying Optimus, Tesla’s humanoid robot.

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He predicted that if nan missions spell well, humans could commencement landing connected Mars arsenic soon arsenic 2029, though 2031 is much likely.