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If we take his stated motivations at face value, he's genuinely concerned that we hedge our bets against existential threats as soon as possible. Establishing a
by jnicholasp 10y ago
If we take his stated motivations at face value, he's genuinely concerned that we hedge our bets against existential threats as soon as possible. Establishing a colony on another planet is both within planning range and likely the strongest hedge we can currently make. If he thinks he can get there, I'll take his published timelines with grains of salt, but at this point I'll also trust him that the goal is plausible.
- anotheryou 10y agoI think with globalization we can see most of humanity as a single super-organism and it is very scary to me that we are the only specimen. Maybe we should cut down on those antibiotics and check our near future climate first, so we don't need the mars tech here. It would be very ironic, if most of humanity got wiped out by some virus and the few native tribes are the lone survivors.