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SpaceX is actively working towards that goal.

• Planktonne 4y ago
  SpaceX's own mission statement doesn't mention becoming part of a community of civilisations [1]. It mentions making humans multiplanetary, but that is a very different aim [2]. Further, it's a good idea to be skeptical of corporate mission statements generally. SpaceX is doing exciting stuff in the field of rocketry; that's really happening and it's worth being excited about, but they aren't doing more. It's misguided and dangerous to treat them as utopian idealists. [1] https://www.spacex.com/mission/ https://www.spacex.com/mission/ [2] https://www.gutenbergcanada.ca/ebooks/lewiscs-outofthesilentplanet/lewiscs-outofthesilentplanet-00-e.html https://www.gutenbergcanada.ca/ebooks/lewiscs-outofthesilent...
  • mr_toad 4y ago
    If Starship isn’t designed to go to Mars and back they’ve made some odd design choices.
  • WalterBright 4y ago
    > but they aren't doing more Criminy, aren't they doing great? I finally found a way to buy some shares of SpaceX. I don't even care if that investment does badly, I just want to share in a tiny bit of SpaceX. > dangerous ?? On the scale of things that terrify me, SpaceX doesn't move the needle.
  • SyzygistSix 4y ago
    Musk has acknowledged that he considers colonizing Mars a step to becoming extrasolar eventually, not that SpaceX plans to do that itself.
• mistermann 4y ago
  On a portion of it - I don't see any attention paid to discovering how to teach human beings how to be better at good will, which is part of the claim.