{"id":87641,"date":"2019-02-11T14:42:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T22:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/elon-musk-a-round-trip-ticket-to-mars-will-cost-just-100000"},"modified":"2019-02-11T14:42:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T22:42:26","slug":"elon-musk-a-round-trip-ticket-to-mars-will-cost-just-100000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/elon-musk-a-round-trip-ticket-to-mars-will-cost-just-100000","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk: A Round-Trip Ticket to Mars Will Cost Just $100,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-a-round-trip-ticket-to-mars-will-cost-just-1000002.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery dependent on volume, but I\u2019m confident moving to Mars (return ticket is free) will one day cost less than $500k &amp; maybe even below $100k,\u201d he wrote. \u201cLow enough that most people in advanced economies could sell their home on Earth &amp; move to Mars if they want.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The extraordinary ambition of Musk\u2019s prediction wasn\u2019t lost on some Twitter users. \u201cFyre Festival Part Deux,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/perk\/status\/1094941537245581312\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one replied<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that skepticism is why, in a follow <strong>\u2013<\/strong>up reply, Musk seemed to hedge his bets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust planning on keeping the public informed about progress &amp; setbacks,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1094799667370455042\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cWill be some [Rapid Unscheduled Disassemblies] along the way, but excitement is guaranteed!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/elon-musk-round-trip-mars\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/elon-musk-round-trip-mars<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cVery dependent on volume, but I\u2019m confident moving to Mars (return ticket is free) will one day cost less than $500k &amp; maybe even below $100k,\u201d he wrote. \u201cLow enough that most people in advanced economies could sell their home on Earth &amp; move to Mars if they want.\u201d The extraordinary ambition of Musk\u2019s prediction [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87641","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\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}