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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4 replies	Author	Time	Post
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

Response to forest444 (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 27, 2016, 07:48 PM

vdogg (1,384 posts)

2. I'm confused

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

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Response to vdogg (Reply #2)

Tue Sep 27, 2016, 07:51 PM

forest444 (5,902 posts)

3. Well, ask yourself:

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

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Response to forest444 (Reply #3)

Tue Sep 27, 2016, 10:38 PM

vdogg (1,384 posts)

4. Yes, absolutely

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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Elon Musk live stream: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species

1. Heaven forbid.

2. I'm confused

3. Well, ask yourself:

4. Yes, absolutely