Elon Musk aims to make humans a multi-planetary race by building an independent city on Mars.
Billionaire tech mogul has said that the starship spacecraft designed by his rocket company SpaceX could land from its first flight to Mars in early 2024. Eventually, he hopes the rocket will lead people to a message on the red planet. Its goal is to build a city of 1 million Martins by 2050.
Legendary filmmaker Werner Herzag thinks it would be a “mistake.”
“I think Elon Musk portrays himself as some kind of technical dreamer.” “Because he’s going to have to sell his electric car. It’s weird that he does that. He’s going to have to sell reusable rockets. It’s wonderful that he’s doing it.”
But, he added, “I disagree with him when he suggests and preaches about colonization of Mars.”
Example of SpaceX’s planned Starship rocket system taking off from Mars and returning to Earth.
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Herzog said humans should “not be like locusts,” but instead “be careful to inhabit our planet.”
Kasturi has argued that the earth cannot be inhabited forever and that the human race must control it. If the weather crisis does not give our planet a hospitable place for human life, asteroids could easily make an impact. Even if we are lucky, in a few billion years the swollen sun will boil into the Earth’s oceans and eventually, expand to swallow our planet completely.
For Kasturi, the colonization of Mars is the first step to escape this fate. But Herzag said he wasn’t sure.
“I have to tell everyone, not just Elon Musk,” he said. “It’s an obscenity. The only thought is obscenity.”
He compared the entrepreneur’s plans to the rise and fall of 20th century communism and fascism.
“Thank God, these two huge utopias were eliminated,” he said, adding that the same would happen to the Martian city of Muscat. “Our century will very quickly bring an end to technological utopias like the Mars colony.”
Still, Herzog said he “would love to go [to Mars] Scientists with cameras. “
