Elon Musk doesn’t want to join Mars flight until he’s older as he fears ‘non-trivial chance of dying’
08.10.2022 - 02:15
/ msn.com
Elon Musk does not want to join a space flight to colonise Mars until he’s older as he fears there is a “non-trivial chance of dying”. The Tesla billionaire, 51, said he would rather stick around to see the two-year-old son, X, who he shares with singer Grimes, 34, grow up before he takes off. He told the Financial Times on Friday (07.
10. 22) when asked if he would like to join the pioneering colony to Mars he is championing: “Especially if I’m getting old, I’ll do it. Why not?” But when asked if he would be useful to his fellow colonists due to his age, dad-of-10 Elon – who referred to himself in the interview as an “autumn chicken” – admitted: “I think there is some non-trivial chance of dying, so I’d prefer to take that chance when I’m a bit older, and see my kids grow up.
“Rather than right now, where little X is only two-and-a-half. I think he’d miss me. ” SpaceX founder Elon – worth £209 billion – has said he wants to transport one million people to Mars by 2050 as he fears the future of humanity is at stake.
He added to the Financial Times about his worries over the planet’s eventual doom: “Something will happen to Earth eventually, it’s just a question of time. “Eventually the sun will expand and destroy all life on Earth, so we do need to move at some point, or at least be a multi-planet species. “You have to ask the question, ‘Do we want to be a space-flying civilisation and a multi-planet species or not?’” He added he believes Earth should devote “1%” of its resources to working on colonising other planets as he thinks it’s a “reasonable amount”.
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