In an essay published in Chinese State Media, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk expressed his deep desire to construct a city on Mars, in addition to his opinions on the importance of developing electric vehicle infrastructure.
“My best hope is that humans create a self-sustaining city on Mars,” Mr Musk wrote.
His essay ran in China Cyberspace magazine, a publication of China’s powerful web censor, the Cyberspace Administration of China, in keeping with reporting by Business Insider. A translation by the Chinese state press agency, Xinhua, together with the English text may be found online.
Mr Musk has long advocated for human colonization of Mars, developing the large Starship spacecraft at SpaceX explicitly for the aim of sending people to construct the self-sustaining city of his dreams on the Red Planet. Within the essay, he explained why.
“Within the vast universe, human civilization is sort of a faint little candle, like just a little shimmering light within the void,” Mr Musk wrote. “When the sun expands in the future and the Earth is not any longer habitable, we will fly to a latest home in a spaceship. If humans can inhabit other planets, it signifies that they’ve passed one in every of the conditions of the good screening of the universe, then we are going to change into interplanetary residents, and human civilization will give you the chance to proceed.”
The SpaceX Starship has long been delayed in making test flights attributable to a lengthy environmental assessment process by several regulators taking a look at the corporate’s research and development centre, dubbed “starbase” by Mr Musk, in West Texas. The corporate hopes to conduct a test flight sometime in September, in keeping with a Federal Communications Commission licence approved on 10 August; the FCC regulates radio communications of US satellites and spacecraft in orbit.
Mr Musk also addressed the electrification of motorized vehicles and what he views because the importance of hastening a more sustainable energy future on the planet.
“The world is on the right track for a sustainable energy transition, and humanity should proceed to speed up the method,” Mr Musk wrote. “The faster this transition is achieved, the less risk humanity poses to the environment and the more it is going to gain.”
Mr Musk’s company Tesla manufacturers and sells electric vehicles. He recently sold greater than $7bn in Tesla stock in ahead of a court battle that may see Mr Musk try to back out of a deal to buy the social media site Twitter for $44bn.
