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Originally Posted by CaliforniaCat
Why do we need a colony on Mars?
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Why did we need a new route to China, why did we need a new continent.
Humans have a need to explore and expand. Is the main reason. Musk feels, and I don't disagree, that having a viable self sufficient colony on Mars give the human race a chance to survive if the Earth gets hit by a comet or Climate change is worse than expected, or COVID-24 is 100% deadly. Lots of ways life on our seriously over populated planet can go sideways. We currently use MORE resources by June every year than the earth can replenish in a Earth, and of course one of Musks favorites is the potential for an AI project to get out of hand and kill of mankind.
And WE, you and me, probably do not need a colony on Mars. Luckily, unlike ULA (Boeing) SpaceX is not asking you and me to provide funding. Mush is providing most of the funding by selling products and services - SpaceX, Tesla, Neural Link, Star Link, Boring Company, Batteries, Solar Panels, (soon to come) Tesla Humanoid Robots. etc. etc. etc. He funnels most of the profits from those all get funneled into SpaceX. Most of those involve developing technology that will be needed in a Mars colony, so it can be developed and debugged before going there.
So, The reason Musk wants to go there (he says) is that HE WANTS to save the human race. He tends to think big - LOL.