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Originally Posted by Bladewire
?There's a fundamental difference, if you look into the future, between a humanity that is a space-faring civilization, that's out there exploring the stars ? compared with one where we are forever confined to Earth until some eventual extinction event.? - Elon Musk
On hiring: "[My biggest mistake is probably] weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart." - Elon Musk
It's inspiring that people like him keep pushing forward and producing results that a benefit is all.
On government licensing: ?We have essentially no patents in SpaceX. Our primary long-term competition is in China. If we published patents, it would be farcical, because the Chinese would just use them as a recipe book.?- Elon Musk.  |
Man will be extinct or close to it long before we are exploring the Stars. We cannot sustain the growth we currently at.
There is an 80% probability that world population, now 7.2 billion people, will increase to between 9.6 billion and 12.3 billion in 2100. Forget about feeding those people unless rain falls increase dramatically. At the moment fertile land is turning to deserts.
As for jobs, forget about that. Machines will do them.
The difficulties faced with building a vehicle that can carry people across Space, keep them alive, return them and us being able to pay for it. Are immense. Putting someone in a coma-like state for the time it takes to travel 40,208,000,000,000 km or 4.2 light years are immense. Especially if they're weightless.
We are at the point of building dugout boats and crossing the Atlantic in them.
Musk and especially people like Gates would do more good by giving free birth control pills to the billions still on Earth.
Sorry to bring you dreamers back to the real world.