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Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars
This concept—making human life multi-planetary in a self-sustaining way—is often called “planetary redundancy.” Musk calls it life insurance for the species. I call it backing up the hard drive.
Tim Urban • The Elon Musk Blog Series: Wait But Why
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This answer is no longer broadly resonant, or even acceptable as a go-forward baseline in the circles that run Western civilization (ref The Davos Agenda). It’s clear that pursuit of maximal human dominance has led to widespread, intractable and potentially irreversibly negative impact on “the planet”, by which we generally mean those planetary eco... See more
Medium • Humanity, the Ecosystem
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Being multi-planetary also helps ensure the survival of the human species: It helps humans escape volcanoes, meteors, climate changes, etc.
Elon Musk • Page not found
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Another motivation was that colonizing other planets would help ensure the survival of human civilization and consciousness in case something happened to our fragile planet.
Walter Isaacson • Elon Musk
A City on Mars: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through?
Marx: “Men make their own biosphere, but they do not make it just as they please.”