Elon Musk on Radio Davos
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A brief, familiar Mars exchange built around Musk’s oft-repeated “not on impact” joke, with no meaningful new detail. Skip unless you want a compact version of his standard spacefaring persona.
Do you see yourself ever going to Mars in your lifetime? Yeah, I mean, I would say like, you know, that's a long commitment. I've been asked, wasn't that three years each way? It's six months. Six months, that's all it is. Yeah, six months. But the planets only align every, every two years. Okay. So yeah, I've been asked a few times, like, do I want to, you know, die on Mars? And I'm like, yes, but just not on impact.
Elon Musk appears briefly in the episode in an exchange about his curiosity regarding the universe and the role of exploration. He also discusses the practical duration of a Mars journey and his willingness to die on Mars, as long as the mission does not end in a crash.