Elon Musk is taking the vision in the long term.
SpaceX’s billionaire founder has long said that humanity needs to expand its footprint to the Solar System, specifically to Mars, which is the most appropriate and accessible objective, so that we do not get extracted if something bad.
That “if” only applies in the short term, however; On the long journey, something bad happens. The sun is getting brighter and hotter as it ages, and a few million years from now on, this increase in energy influx will strip the atmosphere of the earth and the oceans of the boiler. That will probably be the end of life as we know it. The coup of grace will arrive within about five billion years, when our expanding red giant wraps the sun and incinerates the small poor land.
Musk referred to this unfortunate destination in a recent interview with Fox News Jesse Waters, who asked the richest man in the world why he is so obsessed with the red planet.
“That is one of the benefits of Mars, it is life for life collectively,” Musk told Watters in the interview, which Fox News issued yesterday (May 6). “Then, one, all life on Earth will be destroyed by the Sun. The Sun is gradually expanding, so at some point we must be a multiplane civilization, Becoaus Earth will incinerate.”
Musk: that directs the Department of Cost and Regulation of the Trump Efficiency Administration of the Government, estimated that we have 450 million years “before it heats up so much that life is impossible.”
That is a fairly long track for Spacex to complete the development and tests of Starship, the full -time megarockt geuseable time that Musk believes that the March settlement is economically feasible.
The spacecraft, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, has flown eight times to date and twice this year so far. The two test missions of 2025, which were launched in January and March, respectively, were successful partial. The spacecraft in a great reinforcement of the first stage, Super Heavy, worked well, but the upper stage of the vehicle’s ship exploded less than 10 minutes in flight.
Spacex is currently preparing for spacecraft to the next launch; The company has already tested the super heavy engines and the ship that will make flight 9. But no target date has been announced.
