Grown-ups are absolutely extraordinary
Mars is a frozen, inhospitable planet. Yet, as SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on a TV talk show on Monday, it holds great (business) promise. Musk wants to build a colony of 1 million people on the red planet.
He said there is a slow way (carrying greenhouse gases from Earth) and a fast way (such as "nuking" the place) to make it suitable to sustain life. That neither of the ways is practical or plausible is common sense. The point to be noted, however, is: Has big business started to believe it is about to exhaust the means to expand and make more profits on Earth and is thus looking to other planets?
Musk's seemingly off-the-cuff remarks, some would say they were made in jest, reminds one of something that happened in Spain three months ago. A woman claiming to own the sun decided to take e-commerce firm eBay to court for preventing people from bidding on plots of land on the sun she wanted to sell.
