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Why Elon Musk is so hellbent on going to Mars
Monday, April 20, 2015 8:57
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Musk didn’t hesitate. “Humans need to be a multiplanet species,” he replied.
And pretty much at that moment my thinking reorganized itself. He didn’t need to explain his reasoning; I agree with that statement, and I’ve written about it many times. Exploration has its own varied rewards … and a single global catastrophe could wipe us out. Space travel is a means to mitigate that, and setting up colonies elsewhere is a good bet. As Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (the father of modern rocketry) said, “The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in the cradle forever.” …. http://www.businessinsider.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2015/04/why-elon-musk-is-so-hellbent-on-going.html
