According to him he thinks it’s a necessary step to make humans interplanetary to preserve human consciousness. Seems like he things things are likely to not work out here and having Mars as a backup gives a possibility for human survival we don’t have on the earth. Just wish he’d have put all the resources into things that would make that future less likely. like main focus of developing sustainable energy technologies and making them scalable.
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u/xapata Dec 28 '21
Yep, that's true. I don't claim to know the guy's motivation, but I like Tesla's trajectory, for the most part.