Published 14:56 IST, January 18th 2020
Elon Musk reveals plans to send 10 lakh people to Mars by 2050
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has revealed that he hopes to send close to 10 lakh people to Mars by the year 2050 and also revealed how he plans on achieving his goal
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In a Twitter thre, X CEO Elon Musk has revealed that he hopes to send close to 10 lakh people to Mars by year 2050 and also revealed how he plans on achieving his goal and resources required to colonise Red Planet. He also wrote that he wished to make humans a 'multi-planetary species'.
Plans to put people on Mars
While talking more about how exactly he would go about accomplishing this daunting task, Musk said that a rocket would have to carry many megatons of cargo every year to Red Planet in order to prepare Mars for human presence by mid-century.
Musk explained that goal is to send 1,000 flights a year with each ship carrying 100 tonnes of cargo. refore cargo of 10 ships would be 1 megaton. ships that would be used is SN1 that is currently under construction a X's Texas facility.
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ships though will only be able to launch once every 2 years during orbital sync between Earth-Mars which is when two planets are closest to each or. September last year X requested NASA to provide it with potential landing site on red planet.
Musk ded that in order for Mars to become habitable, it h to make warmer and suggested launching rmonuclear weapons in order to create tiny "suns" over regions. This would help release all frozen carbon dioxide gas and trigger a man-me greenhouse effect. He has also estimated that cost of making Mars self-sustaining is somewhere between $100 billion and $10 trillion.
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14:56 IST, January 18th 2020