Elon Musk: “I think as a rough approximation, we need about a million…”

“If we have an exponential increase in, if every two years we have like a major increase in the number of people in tonnage to Mars. I think as a rough approximation, we need about a million tons to the surface of Mars, maybe a million people. That kind of thing to actually have a civilization. Yeah. And would you terraform, like what would you do? You would eventually terraform Mars?” (30:12–30:18)

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