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bananas

(27,509 posts) Tue Sep 27, 2016, 02:18 PM Sep 2016

Elon Musk live stream: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species

Starts 11:30AM PT, 2:30PM ET

Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species
SpaceX
Scheduled for Sep 27, 2016

SpaceX Founder, CEO, and Lead Designer Elon Musk will discuss the long-term technical challenges that need to be solved to support the creation of a permanent, self-sustaining human presence on Mars. The technical presentation will focus on potential architectures for sustaining humans on the Red Planet that industry, government and the scientific community can collaborate on in the years ahead.

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Elon Musk live stream: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species (Original Post) bananas Sep 2016 OP

Heaven forbid. forest444 Sep 2016 #1

I'm confused vdogg Sep 2016 #2

Well, ask yourself: forest444 Sep 2016 #3

Yes, absolutely vdogg Sep 2016 #4

forest444

(5,902 posts)

1. Heaven forbid.

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Tue Sep 27, 2016, 02:29 PM

Sep 2016

vdogg

(1,384 posts)

2. I'm confused

Reply to forest444 (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 27, 2016, 07:48 PM

Sep 2016

What does this have to do with the topic of this thread?

forest444

(5,902 posts)

3. Well, ask yourself:

Reply to vdogg (Reply #2)

Tue Sep 27, 2016, 07:51 PM

Sep 2016

Do we really want humanity to become an "multiplanetary" species? Humanity as we know it today, I mean.

vdogg

(1,384 posts)

4. Yes, absolutely

Reply to forest444 (Reply #3)

Tue Sep 27, 2016, 10:38 PM

Sep 2016

I can't sign up for this nihilistic vision that we are, or should be, condemned to die on this planet. We've done a lot of bad, but we're capable of a lot of good as well. Humanity needs a backup plan. All it takes is on wayward unseen meteor and it's lights out for us.

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