Becoming a multi planetary species.
CEO of SpaceX, Elon Musk, held a new press conference at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide a few hours ago and their new plans are ambitious and awesome as fuck!
Not only is there a new spaceship (BFR) coming that is capable to launch more cargo (150t), is 100% reusable and costs less to use over time than other ships/rockets, there are ambitious plans to launch some of those ships to Mars and the Moon. In the year 2022 SpaceX plans to send some material and tools to Mars. Two years later more cargo and even people will follow to build a colony! The picture above is taken out of the presentation and depicts how the colony might look like!
But wait! There is more. If we can use those ships to go any where in our solar system, why not use them to go from point A to point B on earth? That's right, Elon Musk presented plans to use these new ships to transport people around the globe!
According to Elon Musk you can get from anywhere on earth to your goal in less than 30 minutes most of the time! The idea is to reuse the ships and make them as safe to use as planes are today. That makes a lot of sense. You create a multi billion dollar rocket just to use it once and crash it afterwards? How stupid is that?
So far Elon Musk has delivered and I believe we will see the first humans on Mars by the end of the Year 2024! Take a look and enjoy the whole presentation in the video above.
Only expansion to other planets will save this planet from poverty, hunger and slavery !!
Oh no we will have to do far more than just visiting other planets to conquer poverty, hunger and slavery! It's just a first step, a move forward that might create new opportunities for humanity. That might be one thing of many that will improve the life of us all. I think that short term the faster travel on our earth might be a bigger propellant for change in humanities suffering.
If we are able to travel everywhere on this planet in under 30 minutes most of the time, we will start to learn faster about our planet. What is happening in other countries, how do the people the tick. Faster travel will increase our understanding and empathy and that might bring some positive changes to humanity.