Elon Musk's Unserious Mars Colonization Plan

Elon Musk's Unserious Mars Colonization Plan
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I admit it: I'm an optimist. I wanted Elon Musk to show me a strong Mars plan with real finances and real life-support design. I was hoping he'd talked some of his billionaire friends into financing this Mars dream. I wanted the dream to be real.

Optimists, of course, are frequently disappointed, which is why we're often mistaken for cynics. And so, listening to Musk talk about a ticket to Mars that costs less than $200,000 — the median price of a house in America — I must say: I was disappointed. That number doesn't square with what is likely to be the enormous cost of making Mars habitable for humans.

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