Science journalist Shannon Stirone said that SpaceX founder Elon Musk “is absolutely in space” when it comes to the “unrealistic” colonization of Mars and listed the countless ways in which the red planet can kill humans.
“You can choose between boiling blood, you know, to be like a soda can, to die from muscle damage, to freeze to death. You call it, you have a lot of options,” said the author of the recent Atlantic article “Mars it’s a hell hole. ”
Musk said in December that he remained “extremely confident” that SpaceX would land humans on Mars by 2026, adding that it was an achievable goal “six years from now.”
“The important thing is that we establish Mars as a self-sustaining civilization,” Musk said in a Clubhouse discussion this year, according to CNET.
Stirone told CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith” that the human desire to go to the red planet comes from culture and science fiction, but Musk’s motive is fundamentally driven by a “colonialist vision.”
“It simply came to our notice then [Musk] it is not driven by a scientific reason for discovering and seeking the truth, instead it is a colonizing, imperialist, property, dominant factor, which I think is terrible. ”
SpaceX did not respond to CNBC’s request for comment.