'Life In Glass Domes First': Elon Musk Reveals His Plans To Colonise Mars

Space X founder Elon Musk has revealed his plans to colonise the neighbouring planet Mars. In a series of tweets, Musk spoke about how humans will inhabit the red planet initially.

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Musk explained on Twitter that in order to colonise Mars, we would have to support ¡°life in glass domes at first¡± before we ¡°terraform Mars to support life, like Earth.¡±

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The Tesla founder was asked by a Twitter user, named Astronomiaum that when people arrive on Mars, would the planet already be terraformed or would people have another way created by SpaceX to survive on the red planet?

Elon: When people arrived on Mars, would the planet already be terraformed or would people have another way created by SpaceX to survive on the red planet?

¡ª Astronomiaum? ? (@Astronomiaum) November 18, 2020

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Musk wants to realise his dream of making humans a multiplanetary species and build the first colony on Mars by 2050.

To make the planet more habitable for human beings, Elon has proposed the process known as terraforming, which involves blasting the planet with nuclear weapons at its poles to cause the ice caps to melt and induce accelerated warming to make it more liveable for humans.

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Elon first proposed terraforming as a probable solution to speed up the habitability of Mars in 2014, when he described it as a ¡°fixer upper of a planet¡± in an interview with US TV host Stephen Colbert.

Musk laid out his plans to build a city on Mars in a livestream event last month. He stressed the idea of a Martian colony being fully self-sufficient in case support from mothership Earth would somehow be cut off.

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