Elon Musk: “We Need To Leave Earth As Soon As Possible For One Critical Reason”
In all the planets of our home galaxy, humankind happens to discover itself on a planet that is perfectly suitable for life. Earth isn’t without its dangers, however. He’s so worried that he thinks we have to get off Earth and grow into a multi-planet species as soon as possible, according to an article posted by blogger Tim Urban called How (and Why) SpaceX Will Colonize Mars. Musk’s thought is quite straightforward. Perhaps by the time the next huge asteroid heads our way, we’ll have the equipment to protect the planet or redirect the space rock. But if it’s something a bit more disastrous, like a neighboring star exploding, we may all get vaporized. Musk says we certainly can’t afford to just wait around and find out. In his article, Urban provides us another way to think about it: Visualize Earth as a hard drive, and every single species is a word document saved on that hard drive. The hard drive has already been crashed at least five times, and each time it misses a