Science journalist Shannon Stirone said that SpaceX founder Elon Musk “is absolutely out of space” when it comes to the “unreal” colonization of Mars and listed the myriad of ways the red planet can kill humans. humans.
“You can choose between boiling blood, you know, to produce it like a soda can, dying from damaging your muscles, freezing you to death. No, you have a lot of options,” he said. author of the recent Atlantic article “Mars is a hole in hell.”
Musk said in December that he remains “very confident” that SpaceX will land humans on Mars in 2026, adding that it is an achievable goal “in six years.”
“The important thing is that we establish Mars as a self-sustaining civilization,” Musk said in a Clubhouse chat 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.”
“The difference with him [Musk] is that it is not driven by a scientific motive of discovery and search for the truth, but is a colonizing, imperialist, property-owned, dominant factor that I think is terrible. ”
SpaceX has not responded to CNBC’s request for comment.