Recently, SpaceX has released a video depicting a CG concept of its Interplanetary Transport System, formerly known as the Mars Colonial Transporter.
Kinda reminds me a gigantic version of the Falcon 9 rocket in use.
And as for Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species:
It's very exciting prospects for all of us and HLP, as well as Malaysians, if we want to get out from a dying planet, which, according to Libertarian candidate for US President, Gary Johnson, gets encompassed by the growing sun in billions of years. However, in his last year's GQ interview, he expressed concern that this might be foiled by aggressive Earthlings.
Most of us instinctively assume that technology relentlessly marches forward, but there have been times before now in human history—after the Egyptians built the Pyramids, for instance, or after the multiple advances of the Roman Empire—when the civilizations that followed could no longer do what had been done before, and perhaps there's a complacency and arrogance in assuming that this won't happen again.
There's a window that could be opened for a long time or a short time where we have an opportunity to establish a self-sustaining base on Mars before something happens to drive the technology level on Earth below where it's possible. So does the base become self-sustaining before spaceships from Earth stop going?...I mean, I don't think we can discount the possibility of a third World War. You know, in 1912 they were proclaiming a new age of peace and prosperity, saying that it was a golden age, war was over. And then you had World War I followed by World War II followed by the Cold War. So I think we need to acknowledge that there's certainly a possibility of a third World War, and if that does occur it could be far worse than anything that's happened before. Let's say nuclear weapons are used. I mean, there could be a very powerful social movement that's anti-technology. There's also growth in religious extremism. Like, I mean, does ISIS grow…?
He failed to mention the rise of Donald Trump and his alt-right, far right political parties in Europe, and Russian ultranationalism under Vladimir Putin via Putinism; and he even failed to acknowledge the looming pro-Putin Trump presidency with policies that are potentially disasterous to space, science, tech and innovation.
