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Imagining Elon Musk’s Million-Person Mars Colony – The greatest thought experiment of all time<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Marshall Brain<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 26<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What should be the goal of the Mars colony?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I finish this Chapter, it is October 15, 2017. It is a little more than a year since Elon Musk made his big Million-Person Mars Colony announcement, as described in Chapter 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the last couple of weeks, Musk has made several new announcements about his rocket plans and his colony plans, and even released this new concept image for the colony on Mars:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Musk also did a second Reddit AMA yesterday to answer questions from the public:<\/p>\n\n\n\n