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Elon Musk has long dreamed of building a human civilization on Planet Mars. But Musk’s dream was called a dangerous one by British astrophysicist Lord Martin Rees.
As is well known, Musk first described his dream to build a colony on Mars in 2016. Recently, the CEO SpaceX It says an independent city on Mars could form in 2050 if the process starts five years from now.
Rees, who has been a royal astronomer since 1995, criticized Musk’s ideals while speaking at a panel discussion at the World Government Summit in Dubai. During the panel he also spoke with US astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.
“The only reason humans go to space is for adventure. To live on Mars will not be easy. Mars has a hostile environment,” said Rees as quoted by Sky News, Monday (15/3/2021).
“Elon Musk’s idea to have one million people settle on Mars is a dangerous delusion. Living on Mars is no better than living in the South Pole or the summit of Mount Everest, “he continued.
Tyson also added with a similar comment. According to him, sending billions of people to Mars to avoid major disasters is not something realistic and its resources are better used to prevent major disasters from happening on Earth.
“It’s much easier to make Earth back into Earth than terraforming Mars,” Tyson said.
Terraforming is the process of changing the atmosphere, temperature or topography of the planet’s surface to make it look like Earth. But this method is not easy and requires large resources.
The latest analysis says terraforming Mars will probably require 3,500 nuclear warheads per day to raise the Martian atmospheric pressure to human-friendly levels and melt surface ice to release carbon dioxide.
Although pessimistic about the dream that Musk wants to live in Mars, Tyson said space exploration is something that is important to always be pursued.
“There is no force on Earth as powerful as space exploration that influences our thoughts and ambitions. Thinking about the future is half of what drives the future,” he said.
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