Elon Musk Shares SpaceX's Mars Colonization Plans Elon Musk recently detailed SpaceX's strategy for sending humans to Mars, highlighting two key elements: orbital refueling technology and creating a self-sustaining civilization. Orbital refilling would enable heavier payloads for interplanetary flights, while long-term settlements could make humanity multi-planetary. The presentation offered one of the most concrete timelines yet for crewed Mars missions, moving us closer to making human life on

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Elon Musk's Vision for Mars: A Backup Plan for Humanity Elon Musk's plan to colonize Mars as a "backup plan" for humanity has sparked both intrigue and debate. His vision, articulated since 2007, aims to establish a self-sustaining colony on Mars to ensure human survival as the sun's expansion threatens Earth in about 1 billion years. However, scientific consensus suggests Earth's habitability may end much sooner, within 500 million to 1.5 billion years, due to increasing solar brightness and lo

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