The serial entrepreneur behind Tesla Motors and the California-based SpaceX believes there are "plenty" of people who would consider a one-way trip to Mars.
Sounding like a cross between Captain Kirk and L. Ron Hubbard, Elon Musk said SpaceX's long-term goal is to establish a "self-sustaining city" on the red planet as a kind a backup for earth.
"The future of humanity will fundamentally bifurcate along the lines of a single-planet species or a multi-planet species," Musk, 43, said at the AeroAstro 100th Anniversary Symposium at MIT. "A multi-planet version of humanity's future is going to last a lot longer ... than if we were a single-planet species."
NASA chose SpaceX as part of the first program to allow private companies to deliver supplies to the International Space Station, but it has yet to send a manned spacecraft to Mars.
"There are some risks ... which we will not be able to mitigate," Musk said. "I think we should do it now because ... the window of technology for this is open. For 1 percent of our resources, we could buy life insurance for us collectively."
Musk acknowledged that space flight today is "ridiculously expensive," and even the likes of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett couldn't afford the estimated $200 billion cost of a Mars spacecraft.
That's why the first Mars explorers would likely send robots. But calling to mind the movie "The Terminator" he warned of the perils of artificial intelligence, calling it "probably our biggest existential threat."
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