Are We Colonizing Mars Like Elon Musk Proclamations?

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Elon musk is constantly telling us, you know, when we're going to colonize mars. But i ask any person seriously involved in space ation, are we colonizing mars? And within a very short time frame, they will say, absolutely not. There's absoy no way that's happening. Abeth colbert is a new yorker staff writer who on appeal for her book, the sixth extinction.

When it comes to Elon Musk, it can be hard to separate the man from the myth. But in her new podcast, “The Evening Rocket,” Harvard historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore manages to see through Musk’s mystique, explain his worldview, and decipher his visions of the future by going back to the sci-fi stories he grew up on — stories, Lepore says, that Musk sometimes misread.