It sounds good. It sounds like the age of the Jetsons. It also sounds a bit crazy. I mean technology moves fast but does it move fast enough to think that Musk will be able to offer people trips to Mars by 2024? It takes decades to build old fashioned (by Musk’s standards) light rail systems in major cities. Maybe we should put Musk in charge of those projects! In regards to his Mars 2024 plan, in June 2016 he said (and reiterated it September 29th): That’s a long flight! Anyway, we thought it would be fun to take a look at 8 more “crazy” ideas of Musk’s and what he has said about them #1. When it comes to Mars, Musk has some ideas about how a colony there would function. During the 2016 Code Conference, Musk said: #2. His Mars vision isn’t simply about getting to Mars alive. He is envisioning a thriving studio. During a Reddit AMA in the fall of 2016, Musk said his Mars colony would have everything from “iron foundries to pizza joints.” #3. Traveling to Mars may be hazardous to your health. Musk has made it clear that anyone who signs up for the first mission to Mars should make sure they have said goodbye to their loved ones: However, if you do decide the risk of death is worth it, Musk thinks dying in space is a decent way to go: #4. Speaking of death, Musk believes in the future of self-driving cars and thinks trying to keep people from using them is basically the same as killing them. In October 2016, Musk was criticizing media coverage of Tesla accidents during Autopilot mode. He also added that it “is basically almost none relative to the paucity of media coverage of the 1.2 million people that die every year in manual crashes. And think carefully about this because if in writing some article that’s negative you effectively dissuade people from using autonomous vehicles, you’re killing people.” 5. Elon Musk often considered the possibility that humans are a part of another civilization’s video game. And if that’s the case, Musk doesn’t think it is necessarily a bad thing. At the 2015 Vox Media Code Conference, Musk said: Um, OK. 6. Musk thinks that artificial intelligence is the “biggest existential threat” that human beings face. In 2014, he said: You keep doing you Elon Musk!
