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Jill Lepore on Elon Musk's imaginary world
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Is There No Planet B?
A lot of the vision behind the mars expedition comes from science fiction writer kim stanley robinson and his mars astralogy. Musk in particular, kind of changed how he talked about why we should go to mars, right? He has these phrases that it is important for human kind to become a space faring or multiplanetary species. So then you sort tof get to the messianic vision, i will save human kind. It is a completely specious argument, ri like it's just thickets bazaar logic. But i think in a kind of like aspindavos world, somehow that seems compelling to people. We future of humanity savi
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