Elon Musk recently admitted that a “bunch of people will probably die” in an attempt to go to Mars.
The Tesla founder made his blunt prediction, laughing at how people saw his Mars mission as “some escape hatch for rich people.”
“You might die, it’s going to be uncomfortable and probably won’t have good food,” he told the founder and chairman of the X Prize Foundation for scientific discovery, Peter Diamandis, according to the New York Post.
My conversation with Elon on Space, $100M XPRIZE, Carbon Capture, Neurolink and the meaning of life! https://t.co/7SZlumlx55
— Peter H. Diamandis, MD (@PeterDiamandis) April 24, 2021
With a chuckle, Musk added that ads for the journey should state that it will an “arduous and dangerous journey where you may not come back alive.”
“Honestly, a bunch of people will probably die in the beginning,” he said while claiming it will be “a glorious adventure and it will be an amazing experience.”
“It’s “not for everyone,” he noted, adding “Volunteers only!”
SpaceX has launched over 100 rockets in the past decade in a bid to bring tourists to the Moon and Mars. Regrettably, most of these unmanned prototypes have ended up in flames.
Everything to the moon!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 17, 2021
In Dec., Musk predicted that his space company will have humans on Mars by 2026. He talked about developing a city on Mars after a successful rocket landing by SpaceX in 2015.
In June 2017, he published a paper on making humanity a multi-planetary species. Musk laid out plans for having as many as 1 million people on Mars.
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If a passenger on way to Mars gets into flames then his journey to Mars will end at heaven without any extra cost . Otherwise , enjoy the environment at Mars and be happy . If you win something then you also loose something .