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

Posted by msmash on Thursday June 2, 2016 @04:00AM 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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Stupid predictions by 110010001000 · 2016-06-02 04:33 · Score: 2, Informative

This is almost as dumb as Bill Gates predicting AI will take over. We are no closer to AI than we were 40 years ago, and no closer to putting people on Mars than we were 40 years ago either. It may not even be physically possible to create an AI or live on Mars.