Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species
SpaceXCited 3× on HN, 2020–2025
talk · general · 2020–2025 on HN
Elon Musk's 2016 IAC presentation on the technical challenges and architectures for building a self-sustaining human presence on Mars.
Referenced as Musk's original statement of SpaceX's multiplanetary plan.
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3 comments from Hacker News
You might be right but consider these old talks: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species (2016) ▶ this video Elon Musk talks Climate Change and Carbon Tax at the Sorbone 2015 link It could be that he was just following the trends knowing there was money to be made, but I detect some real passion back in these videos. Of course no motivation comes from a single source and there's some mix of philanthropy and money driving this, among other motivations. Either way his tone has changed a lot, to say the least.
> If you're going to get a significant fraction of the human race living off Earth you'll need to build something nicer than Earth that's what Blue Origin is working-on but their timeline is unsure to me :-) ▶ this video
Not the parent poster, but there is [0] Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species / Elon's original presentation from IAC 2016 - ▶ this video [1] Starship Update / 2019 - link