Elon Musk: “Mars will be very dangerous and the moon base would be also…”

“Legacy templates, mental templates, they think that going to Mars is an escape from Earth. Or that it Would be some place where billionaires would go or something like that. But actually Mars will be very dangerous and the moon base would be also dangerous. Much more dangerous and much less comfortable than Earth. So people that would go in the early days to make life multi planetary on Mars or the moon, they would have a much higher risk of death.” (17:53–17:58)

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