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NinjaKlaus  ·  3810 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Humans will land on Mars by 2026: Elon Musk

In my head I have this image of a giant neon sign hanging off a satellite that says "Welcome to Mars, by Tesla Motors."

With that said I believe that it will turn into something out of science fiction, where we are given the money and orders to colonize a certain way and along the way new political factions happen and we end up with a world of new nations. Like something out of the old PC game "Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri."

If anyone can try and get it done it's probably Musk, I think it's a lofty goal that neither NASA nor Musk will make before my time is up sometime in the next 40-60 years. I'm not really holding out hope for more than probes and rovers at this time of budget crunching.