Musk Reveals More Details On His Plan to Colonize Mars

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk discussed technical details about the giant rocket that he says will take passengers to the Red Planet, the roadmap for getting to its first launch, and insights into SpaceX’s broader strategy in an “Ask Me Anything” forum on Reddit Saturday.

Musk responded to questions about tangential details of settling Mars, including speculation that settlers might use a compressed version of the Internet. Musk observed that data would take between 3 and 22 minutes to travel between Earth and Mars. “So you could Snapchat, I suppose. If that’s a thing in the future,” he wrote.

Though Musk has shared images of vast Martian cities in his presentations on Mars colonization, he said SpaceX isn’t focused on building those cities itself. “Our goal is to get you there and ensure the basic infrastructure for propellant production and survival is in place.

A rough analogy is that we are trying to build the equivalent of the transcontinental railway. A vast amount of industry will need to be built on Mars by many other companies and millions of people.”

UCJ, UNILORIN.