Elon Musk: “Governance will be up to the Martians.”

“So talk about the impossible. Elon, what does a self sustaining city on Mars actually look like? How many people? What kind of economy? What kind of governance? Well, Governance will be up to the Martians. but we have some sort of artist impressions of what Mars City would look like. And I don't really know, to be honest, except that Mars is not yet at the point where, where it's sort of terraformed, where you live outdoors.” (10:53–10:56)

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