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Old 06-20-2017, 12:15 PM
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Becoming an interplanetary civilization.

Elon Musk's Mars Dream is Worth Rooting For.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/artic...th-rooting-for
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Beam me up. Elon. (grin)

"When I met Tony Martinez, the mayor of Brownsville, Texas, he had a somewhat wacky argument against the border fence that separated the town from Matamoros, Mexico. "We are about to become an interplanetary civilization," he told me. "And here we are talking about a wall separating what is essentially the same community." The reason he said so is that Brownsville is included in Tesla founder Elon Musk's rather specific plans for the colonization of Mars, published in the June issue of the journal New Space." Bloomberg
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Old 06-21-2017, 07:29 AM
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Beam me up. Elon. (grin)

"When I met Tony Martinez, the mayor of Brownsville, Texas, he had a somewhat wacky argument against the border fence that separated the town from Matamoros, Mexico. "We are about to become an interplanetary civilization," he told me. "And here we are talking about a wall separating what is essentially the same community." The reason he said so is that Brownsville is included in Tesla founder Elon Musk's rather specific plans for the colonization of Mars, published in the June issue of the journal New Space." Bloomberg
Made an impression too on this anti-globalist.
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Elon Musk

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Old 06-21-2017, 09:32 AM
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The thread title reminded me of Klattu's debut album.
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Reminds me very clearly of Heinlein: make Elon Musk "The Man Who Sold Mars."

Hope he pulls it off.
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