{"id":31414,"date":"2016-10-26T17:46:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T00:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/elon-musk-just-shared-his-4-step-plan-for-mars-colonists-should-be-prepared-to-die"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:07:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:07:06","slug":"elon-musk-just-shared-his-4-step-plan-for-mars-colonists-should-be-prepared-to-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/elon-musk-just-shared-his-4-step-plan-for-mars-colonists-should-be-prepared-to-die","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk just shared his 4-step plan for Mars \u2014 colonists should be \u201cprepared to die\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-just-shared-his-4-step-plan-for-mars-colonists-should-be-prepared-to-die.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk wants to launch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/how-spacex-mars-rocket-works-its-2016-9\">a million people to Mars<\/a> in the event some apocalyptic disaster eventually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/sun-destroy-earth-red-giant-white-dwarf-2016-9\">ruins Earth<\/a>. And he wants it to be somewhat affordable \u2014 US $200,000 or less per person.<\/p>\n<p>To that end the SpaceX CEO outlined his plan to colonise Mars on September 27, including how his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/how-spacex-mars-rocket-works-its-2016-9\">Interplanetary Transport System<\/a> (ITS) of rockets, spaceships, fuel pods, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/spacex-carbon-fiber-fuel-tank-ocean-ship-test-2016-10\">other crucial components<\/a> would get the job done.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/elon-musk-mars-speech-transcript-2016-9\">full presentation<\/a> at the International Astronomical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, barely scratched the surface.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/elon-musk-has-shared-his-4-step-plan-for-mars-with-reddit\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/elon-musk-has-shared-his-4-step-...ith-reddit<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk wants to launch a million people to Mars in the event some apocalyptic disaster eventually ruins Earth. And he wants it to be somewhat affordable \u2014 US $200,000 or less per person. To that end the SpaceX CEO outlined his plan to colonise Mars on September 27, including how his Interplanetary Transport System [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":361,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65915,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31414\/revisions\/65915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}