The life of Elon Musk

He plans to connect our brains to computers and colonize Mars. This is the life of Elon Musk.

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00:00I think this is one of the great questions in physics and philosophy is where are the aliens?

00:08Maybe they're among us, I don't know. Some people think I'm an alien. Not true.

00:30Eventually, history suggests there will be some doomsday event. The alternative is to

00:51become a space-faring civilization and a multi-planet species, which I hope you would agree that

00:56is the right way to go. When I was a kid, I was wondering, what's the meaning of life? Why

01:26are we here? What's it all about? And I came to the conclusion that what really matters is trying

01:36to understand the right questions to ask.

02:26The most important mistake I see smart people making is assuming that they're smart. They're not.

02:56You want to do projects that are inspiring and that make people excited about the future. Life's

03:16got to be about more than just solving problems. You want to get up in the morning and say, yes,

03:20I'm looking forward to that thing happening.

04:21Space is one of those things that I think almost everyone is inspired by. And if you asked people,

04:31what was the most inspiring event in history, it was probably landing on the moon. You ask people

04:36anywhere. We can bring life as we know it and breathe life into Mars where it doesn't exist

04:43today and ensure that if there is some kind of cataclysmic event on Earth, that life as we know

04:49it continues to exist.

05:06There's a certain probability that is irreducible that something may happen to Earth. Despite our

05:13best intentions, despite everything we try to do, there's a probability at a certain point that

05:18some either external force or some internal unforced error causes civilization to be

05:27destroyed. My personal ideology is split right now between trying to be helpful on Earth-related

05:35stuff, which is sustainable energy, and then trying to advance space technology so we can

05:41establish a self-sustaining city on Mars. But I do think it's important to be a multi-planet,

05:45not just one planet, but another planet.

06:15The implant connects wirelessly to a wearable device called The Link,

06:28which can be configured through an iPhone app.

06:45When

06:53people see robots going down the street killing people, they don't know how to react because it

06:59seems so ethereal.

07:45So

09:15we as an agency, we want to go to Mars and even beyond. And of course, we're very excited about

09:44the excitement that Elon is bringing to this, that SpaceX is bringing to this idea of humans

09:51expanding throughout the solar system.

09:58And we want the things that are in science fiction novels and movies not to be science

10:17fiction forever. We want them to be real one day.