Elon Musk: “SpaceX has not yet done [a self-sustaining civilization on…”

“Well, not going to Mars once, but say going to Mars to build a self sustaining civilization on Mars. That is, that is a very difficult thing which we've SpaceX has not yet done [a self-sustaining civilization on Mars] and we've yet to send anything to Mars. So but whereas we have made significant progress in reducing waste and fraud to. The government, why are we going to Mars? Well, we're definitely, you know, this is a change of subject, but we're going.” (00:58–01:04)

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