“Humanity is not perfect, but it’s all we’ve got,” the SpaceX and Tesla boss said.
To safeguard human life requires moving beyond the blue planet, in Musk’s view, because earth is likely to become uninhabitable.
“There will be some eventual extinction event” if humans stay on earth forever, Musk said in an article published in academic journal New Space, which was published online in June 2017.
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