Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species
Why Hacker News recommends it
Referenced as Musk's original statement of SpaceX's multiplanetary plan.
What it is
Elon Musk's 2016 IAC presentation on the technical challenges and architectures for building a self-sustaining human presence on Mars.
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What Hacker News said
Cites yreg · 2020-08 · on “SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5 [video]”
Not the parent poster, but there is [0] Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species / Elon's original presentation from IAC 2016 - [this video] [1] Starship Update / 2019 - [LINK]
Cites mandeepj · 2020-11 · on “SpaceX Crew-1 [video]”
> If you're going to get a significant fraction of the human race living off Earth you'll need to build something nicer than Earth that's what Blue Origin is working-on but their timeline is unsure to me :-) [this video]
Cites TheMiddleMan · 2025-02 · on “A Year of Telepathy”
You might be right but consider these old talks: Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species (2016) [this video] Elon Musk talks Climate Change and Carbon Tax at the Sorbone 2015 [LINK] It could be that he was just following the trends knowing there was money to be made, but I detect some real passion back in these videos. Of course no motivation comes from a single source and there's some mix of philanthropy and money driving this, among other motivations. Either way his tone has changed a lot, to say the least.