Eventually, all life on Earth will be destroyed by the sun': Elon Musk explains his drive to colonize Mars

[Admin]

Elon Musk explained the rather depressing fate of life on Earth to Fox News host Jesse Waters, who had asked him why humanity should go to Mars.

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[Classical Motion]

Then there should be time to do it with minimum risk and minimum sacrifice.

 

[COLGeek]

So if the Sun destroys the Earth, why would anyone assume Mars is safe (assuming we can get there and make habitable...) from the same phenomenon?

In addition, wouldn't there be overall impact to solar system stability given the demise of the three inner planets?

 

[whoknows]

Building stepping stones out of our solar system might be necessary in the very long term.

But when resources are limited more immediate threats need to be overcome imo.

The Musk/Trump approach reminds me of Ben Elton's novel, written in 1989, "Stark"

Stark (novel) - Wikipedia

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" The environment is being destroyed by a series of 'avalanches' – sudden upsets in the Earth's ecosystem, causing widespread destruction. The Stark conspiracy is a cabal of the world's richest and most influential men, who have long been aware that the planet's ecosystem is approaching total collapse. For decades, they have been launching uncrewed spacecraft loaded with supplies into orbit around the Earth and the Moon. Seeking to save their own lives and leave everyone else to suffer from 'total toxic overload', they secretly build a fleet of spacecraft with the intention of colonising the Moon.

Using crude intimidation, they purchase land from aborigines in Western Australia to use as a launch site. They sell their stocks and commodities to raise cash, dumping the assets at the same time and in high volumes to engineer a worldwide stock market crash and lower the price of the resources they need. They buy the Moon from the United States government, along with the hardware to reach it."

Not a perfect comparison, but it is a novel.