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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Predicts People On Mars In 9 Years (cnn.com)

Posted by msmash on from the block-the-date dept.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says his company should be able to land humans on Mars in nine years from now. "If things go according to plan, we should be able to -- we should be able to -- launch people in 2024, with arrival in 2025," Musk said. "That's the game plan," he added. CNN Money reports: Musk said he's planning to share an architectural plan for the colonization of Mars at a conference in September. The tech conference audience was enthralled by Musk's comments. He told interviewers Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg that plotting travel throughout the Solar System, and "ultimately other star systems," provides the kind of inspiration that makes life worth living.

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  1. Re:Why the political ending? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Elon Musk, God Emperor of Mars, doesn't really see Earth politics as all that important.

  2. It's not implausible. It's actually very likely. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't think it's implausible. This morning we learned that Apple has released the first preview of Swift 3.0. This is an important step in getting to Mars. After all, software will be crucial for any manned mission there, just like software was crucial to landing humans on the Moon. Swift is just the sort of language that's needed in order to write the complex and critical software needed for such a mission. So now that the software probably won't be an issue, it's just a matter of getting the rocketry and landing hardware figured out. If we could do it in the 1960s, we can do it again today.

  3. Things left unsaid by Nidi62 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Notice Musk just said landing people on Mars. He never said anything about whether they would be livingwhen they got there.....

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  4. Re:I predict.... by Gojira+Shipi-Taro · · Score: 4, Funny

    Preferably ALL of them.

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  5. Re:Uh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    BS!

    I don't think the article said live, intact people...