Science journalist Shannon Stirone said that the founder of SpaceX, Elon Musk, is “absolutely in space” when it comes to the “unrealistic” colonization of Mars, citing the myriad ways in which the red planet can kill people.
“You can choose between your boiling blood, you know, like a can of soda, dying because your muscles weaken and freezing to death. You name it, you have many options,” said the author of the recent Atlantic . article “Mars is a holy hole.”
Musk said in December that he remains “very confident” that SpaceX will land humans on Mars by 2026, adding that it is an achievable goal “about six years from now.”
“The most important thing is that we establish Mars as a self-sustaining civilization,” Musk said in a clubhouse interview, according to CNET this year.
Stirone told CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith” that the human desire to go to the red planet stems from culture and science fiction, but Musk’s motive is fundamentally driven by a ‘colonialist view’.
‘The difference with him [Musk] is not driven by a scientific motive for discovery and search for truth, but is a colonizing, imperialist, property value, dominant factor, which in my opinion is terrible. ‘
SpaceX did not respond to a request for comment from CNBC.