Elon Musk: “We know from the fossil record that there have been many…”

“You know, there's, there's always some possibility of self annihilation on Earth with the World War III or, or super virus or, or, or a meteor like extinct, but you know, that destroyed the dinosaurs. We know from the fossil record that there have been many mass extinction events. 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?” (41:09–41:13)

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