Mars Needs Elon

Well, we’ll see how it goes.

It’s a major, major undertaking - although SpaceX is avoiding most of the heavy lifting associated with Apollo: The tech is already mature + ingenious cost-saving measures.

It will inevitably run into some unexpected trouble with the environment and/or human capabilities that we don’t even know of yet and the first wave of colonist will most likely fatally fail.

But: It’s a meaningful, great enterprise and I salute everyone involved in their struggle to advance humanity. And Musk has a good track record of successfully pulling off the seemingly impossible.

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