Elon Musk Comments on Mars During Town Hall in PA

Hey Elon, thanks very much for coming and thanks for everything you're doing for the human species And I wanted to know what you think like where you see humans a thousand years from now assuming There isn't a nuclear situation and what you think about, you know, the nuclear situation currently in non-proliferation. I mean well, like I think If we can just if I do think that there is an important threshold where if we were able to make Life multi-planetary meaning like that you can get to the point on Mars where Mars can grow by itself Even if the resupply shifts from Earth stop coming That's the critical threshold where the probable lifespan of civilization is dramatically greater So it's not enough just to go go to Mars and have like a small base or something like that. You've got to actually have enough resources on Mars that if Resupply ships stop coming for any reason and it could be that that things on Earth ended with a bang or a whimper and Currently, it's trending to end. It's sort of tragic Currently things are trending to end with a whimper in adult diapers because the lack of birth rate. So But as soon as we can make the life multi-planetary sustainably multi-planetary the probable lifespan of civilization is dramatically greater And I think that's really the fundamental test is can we can we get to that point before civilization collapses can we make life multi-planetary sustainably multi-planetary before Something happens on Earth to prevent that from occurring and if we do the future is exciting and bright and Mars may one day Come back and save Earth Just like America came back and saved Europe and saved the rest of the world three times last century Three times three times America saved the world last century and And what a disaster would have been if America not existed And one day Mars may play that same role on Earth