Elon Musk wants to save humanity. During his speech at SXSW he tells the audience that when the next dark age descends, we need some humans stashed on the moon and Mars to keep going.
While Musk was quick to clarify that he's not exactly making a prediction, he does feel we need to get going before World war III rolls around.
This was just some of the ground musk covered with moderator Jonathan Nolan, co-creator of HBO's "Westworld". Musk, the founder of multiple companies including SpaceX, TESLA, and the Boring Company, is tackling some of the biggest challenges and technological advances of the modern age, like space travel and autonomous vehicles.
He made a two-day stop at SXSW in Austin, Texas, to talk about his work. He also appeared Saturday at the end of a panel with the cast and show creators of the HBO series "Westworld".
Musk knows a thing or two about breaking free of earth's gravity. Along with people like Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson. he's leading a drive toward a near future of commercial space travel and the industrialization of outer space.
In recent weeks, his SpaceX has been busy. It thrilled the world with the launch of the Falcon Heavy, the most powerful rocket to lift off from US soil since the Saturn V of NASA's Apollo era. It also sent two prototype satellites into orbit to test a system for beaming broadband internet to Earth, in a plan that could involve more than 11,000 satellites by the middle of the next decade. That's in addition to its regular workload of carrying gear aloft for NASA and for other countries.
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