Elon Musk: “The window of opportunity to make life multi-planetary…”

“So the question that I sort of, I'm always wondering about is will civilization, will the civilizational arc continue to ascend such that we can make Mars self sustaining before the civil civilizational arc descends? Because The window of opportunity to make life multi-planetary exists now for the first time in the four and a half billion year history of Earth. Yeah, Elon, let's assume that we get there and you're there. You know, you'd be the elder statesman, you'd have the moral authority of Mars. How do you run Mars?” (41:31–41:41)

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