Elon Musk: “I think we can do this in, I don't know, at least I think we…”

“… a war, nuclear war or something, or we get hit by a meteor or simply civilization might just die with a whimper in adult diapers instead of with a bang. I think we can do this in, I don't know, at least I think we do it within 15 Earth Mars synchronization events or you know, so basically like 30ish years. 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.” (29:39–29:54)

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