Elon Musk Talks About Colonizing the Galaxy

Experience suggests how long before there are regular round trips to Mars more or less like a real civilization on Mars well, I think it's going to take a while to build a real civilization, the threshold that really matters is passing The Great Filter is if we have enough resources on Mars, so that if the spaceships from Earth stopped coming, you could survive, yes, so you could only be missing one small thing, you would be like you were in a long sea. trip and the only thing you're missing is vitamin C uh yeah, it's lucky, it's just a matter of time, you know, yeah, and there will be curtains, so you should have all the things necessary to sustain civilization on Mars um and the reason why The one that Earth changes stopped happening could be World War III or it could be due to a slow decline of civilization, so civilization here on Earth could end with a bang or a whimper, um or natural disasters, yeah, asteroid impacts in the banking category, yeah, but it could also be like a whole series of things like seeing what killed the dinosaurs, well, it wasn't just one thing, you know, it was like a whole bunch of things happened. in a row and, uh, you know well, they could have taken any of those things that had like three things happen and there are no dinosaurs, which is surprising that crocodiles are still here, yeah, those, well, they're hardy crocodiles, they'll live off rotten meat, they love rotten meat, etc.

In kind of a disastrous situation, there are a lot of dead creatures and the crocodiles love it, so that's why they're around crocodiles, bugs and mushrooms, and shrews, right, yeah, that's why we're here, yeah, exactly, our great-great-grandparents were shrews, what a strange thing, so yes, where does it come from, so there is hope, there is hope for all you rodents, yes, one day you will be able to go to Mars, just keep doing your homework absolutely, so there will be You say the great filter, what did it do? Do you mean by that? Well then there's something called the Fermi paradox of where are the aliens, yeah, yeah, where are the aliens? um and um, I think it was Carl Sagan who said, uh, whether there are a lot of aliens or none. and they're just as scary, um, if there's a lot of aliens, well, I mean the invasion ship bar, you know, the bug infestation, you know, like with the Starship Trooper style, well, yeah, I mean, It's like an alien civilization can see it. us like a bug infestation, you know, it's like hey, well, if that planet was okay, it's got a bunch of bugs in it now, just go fumigate it, you know, um, like I'd smoke a house, um, that's certainly possible. and then, uh, but there are no aliens.

Well, could it be that all civilizations are simply destroyed before they become interstellar? Now you know. And I want to be clear, as far as I know, there is no evidence of extraterrestrial life on Earth. That alien does not exist, there is not even evidence. for extraterrestrial life there is no direct evidence of extraterrestrial life, no, you know, and if someone says, oh, what's up with this alien, you know, sighting or whatever, listen, it has to be at least as good like a 711 camera or an ATM, that's fine. like someone has at least an iPhone level camera like something you know the problem is that nowadays it's also very easy to fake things yeah right at least try hard actually are you familiar with Commander David Fravor's account of uh, the tick tac UFO he found off the coast of San Diego, you know, Lex, Lex Friedman, yeah, Lex Friedman interviewed him on his podcast and I interviewed him too, and if he ever you get to listen to Lex's conversation with him, it's really great, but this guy is a naval fighter pilot and he talked about this thing that they tracked on radar that went from over 60 thousand feet above sea level to one foot in less than a second in a tick-tock shape, with no visible signs of propulsion.

The jammed radar actively jammed their tracking systems and then headed to the predetermined point the fighter jet was supposed to reach 30 miles away in a couple of seconds, as if they had no idea how. he did it, they don't know what's right and these guys that were working for the navy off the coast said they had run into them several times, they didn't know what they were, they didn't know what to do, any photo. or something like that, they have a video of it, uh, okay, they have a video of it, they have um, did you ever see the New York Times article that came out in 2017 about this stuff?

I don't know, yeah, there was a New York Times article. in 2017 that detailed this and there are a couple of other different sightings that were very similar, they were trying to figure out what these things were and why and it was also in the covid relief package that the CIA was supposed to release, yeah. These politicians are trying to figure out what this is all about, so they're trying to get them to release all the information they have within 180 days. Honestly, I think I would know if there are aliens, I hope. That's why I ask you: no, me, me.

I'll jump on that like you should look at that conversation with Lex as if this is what you think they would want us to know or do you think they would just be watching and making sure we don't blow ourselves up. man, they're real civilizations, they sure are subtle, I mean, if they wanted us to know, obviously, they could be sure, you know, show up and walk down the main street, you know that, okay, I'm an alien, look at me, you know that Of course, he has done it. my spaceship just landed in the middle of Times Square I'll be fine, okay or I'll float over downtown Los Angeles, yeah, yeah, we were like, okay, we believe you, yeah, so whatever they are, they're very Subtle, very subtle, these aliens how often.

Do you think about it nine zero zero even though you're thinking about interplanetary travel you don't really think about aliens no I mean if they show up I'm cool okay now this is new information but yeah what an interesting way. So to speak, this is new information, listen to their information, like where are you guys so far? Yeah, anyway, listen, if I see any evidence of aliens, I'll be the first to say it. ah aliens, you know at that point you'll investigate, but until then you think it's kind of a waste of time, yeah yeah, it definitely seems like a waste of time if nothing has happened so far.

You think about all the people who have been researching aliens for their entire lives and have very little to show for it, well, you know, there's more than just interesting stories, yeah, I mean, we have archaeologists who go all over the world looking at things, you know, There are people like we found something like, let's say. like a titanium cube like a one inch titanium cube let's see in the middle of the permit it would be like aliens sure there's no way they could have made a titanium back then no there's no way that would be difficult, that's all.

I didn't even need a computer, like a computer was like, hey, wow, computers, they didn't have computers back then, so they must be aliens, but you, but even like some advanced metallurgy, something like that, none of that, none of that we could. point out that we can't do everything that we find archaeologically is consistent with the time, uh, the technology that they had at that time archaeologically, yeah, yeah, so, you're just talking about old stuff, yeah, yeah, throughout history , it's not like, like the aliens that would be the visitors if something was buried somewhere, I don't think we've seen anything, so anyway, I mean, maybe there are aliens, but they're very subtle, if you will.

They're, they're very uh, they're being pretty shy so far. as we can see, there aren't any, nor are we seeing signs of any other solar system or anything like that, so now, and the thing is, on a galactic time scale, even with sublight travel, you could absolutely colonize the entire

galaxy

, even some. of the neighboring galaxies um so if you said if you said a million years with auto con and you said there is no new physics, could you colonize the

galaxy

in a million years, absolutely the entire galaxy, then you would start with Mars, you would build bases on Mars? then use Mars to jump to all these other planets, places established there and for thousands of years, yes, as if you know how to jump from one solar system to the next and yes, it seems that that is imperative, that that has to happen if the human being civilization is going to survive because our planet is too subject to natural disasters and our own madness and if the species is going to survive we have to escape, it's mainly about the species, I mean there have been some real wonders like you know, meteors Massive supervolcanoes and continents moved everywhere and the Earth has snowballed and is super hot.

If you read the geological history of the Earth, it is very long and complicated. So, and then there have been so many extinctions. events not like a few um yeah I mean the Permian extinction event that was really difficult where it's like over 90 percent of all species went extinct um and that doesn't tell the whole story because a lot of the rest of them species were fungi and um, you know, like sponges and things like that, you know, if you're a sponge, okay, you're probably doing fine, they're still out there are you a fungus? Do you like being in the dark and feasting on the dead? dead, dead, dead, plant and animal matter, okay, but if you're like a human, you're screwed.

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