Settling Mars

Elon Musk on why the Moon might come before Mars:“You don’t necessarily have to go through the Moon to get to Mars. But I think we can build a self-growing city on the Moon faster than we can on Mars”The Moon has major advantages for scaling AI in space:Because it has no atmosphere and only one-sixth of Earth’s gravity, you can use a mass driver (railgun) to literally shoot AI data centers into deep space - no rockets requiredYou can also manufacture solar panels and radiators directly from Moon

Elon Musk: “I started that (SpaceX) in mid-2002 expecting to fail. I said probably 90% chance of failure… we’re probably gonna dieBut a small chance we might not die, But this is the only way to get people to Mars and Advance the state of Art”