Elon Musk’s controversial plan to colonize Mars: he proposed to ‘seed’ and create his own species

For many, Elon Musk He is the dreamiest man in the world. But he is also capable of achieving all his aspirations, at any cost, and reaching Mars is part of this ambitious list. The tycoon is working tirelessly to be able to set foot on the red planet.

In addition to the technical details to be able to arrive, the man ordered his employees at SpaceX to also study the possibility of carrying out the other part of your plan: colonize mars with its own design and assess whether humans can reproduce on the planet.

According to sources from The New York Times , Musk volunteered to give up his sperm and help seed a colony.

The American media revealed that currently, SpaceX workers are developing plans to create small, domed habitats and evaluating materials that could be used to build on Mars.

During, Another team takes care of the space suits so that humans can survive in the complex environment of the red planet. Also A group of doctors are studying whether humans can have children there.

And although science says it will take between 40 and 100 years to have a civilization on Mars, Elon Musk has decided to challenge the status quo once again and said he hopes to have at least a million people living on Mars in about 20 years.

But the scenario is complicated: no one, not even the JAR has yet to land on the Red Planet, and it is a hostile environment for humans due to its extremely cold temperatures, dust storms and unbreathable air.

Despite this, the tycoon’s ambition seems greater: he wants to carry out the project at all costs and has assured that he will put all the effort and money necessary to achieve it. In fact, all your businesses would be included in the plan, as The Boring Society which is responsible for digging tunnels and which was reportedly founded by Musk to prepare equipment capable of digging beneath the surface of Mars.

According to some employees, even buying Twitter – now X — would be linked to Martian colonization: This would be their way of “testing how a citizen-led government could work on Mars.” Tesla, for its part, would provide a version of cybertrucks with steel panels to drive on the planet.

With interviews with more than 20 people close to Elon Musk that the Times, The plan to reach Mars is summarized in the following points:

1. There is an “aggressive” schedule make employees in all their companies work hard.
2. Space X builds Spatialship a reusable rocket that aims to take astronauts to the Moon, and later to Mars . In addition, it is planned to be a small special station where there will be accommodation with facilities such as running tracks and a cinema.
3. It is expected that Starship can carry 100 passengers at a time to Mars. The trip could be made every two years. (The trip would last about 9 months, according to NASA and 6 months according to SpaceX).
4. Musk has already stated that children will not be allowed on board flights, but he hopes that one day they will also be able to live on Mars.
5. Appropriate technologies for survival on Mars are being studied. Among them is the collection of ice to produce water and the area where a colony would be built.
6. Musk wants to create his own species on Mars . They would be people evolved to better survive on the planet, a kind of “selective selection”. He first said it in 2013, but according to his current employees, he has repeated the idea.
7. Musk assured that he wanted to achieve thermonuclear explosions and creation of artificial suns to “warm” the planet, whose current temperatures are extremely cold. He also wants to install solar panels to create energy and heat future homes.
8. Musk’s team creates and updates representations of the future city he wants to establish on Mars. There would be a huge dome for “communal living” and smaller domes around it. The tycoon wants it to be a city with an “attractive appearance.”
9. Musk wants The new city will be self-sufficient, in case something happens to Earth and they can’t come back. For this, Starship will be like a “Noah’s Ark”: it will carry plants and animals on its initial voyage. In addition, there will be greenhouses for growing food.
10. The tycoon once said that wants to die on Mars.