“It will be multi-national, and take lots of money and lots of years. Heres my favorite last line in science fiction, from Kim Stanley Robinsons BLUE MARS: 'Waves broke in swift lines on the beach, and she walked over the sand toward her friends, in the wind, on Mars, on Mars, on Mars, on Mars, on Mars. “Mars will never be a single-person or single-company effort,” he continued. The 64-year-old thought that Musk’s plans, which could involve manned, one-way missions to Mars within a decade that cost $100,000 to $200,000 per ticket, were “not believable, which makes it a hard exercise to think about further.” “Musk’s plan is sort of the 1920s science-fiction cliché of the boy who builds a rocket to the moon in his backyard, combined with the Wernher von Braun plan, as described in the Disney TV programs of the 1950s. Kim Stanley Robinson, a Hugo Award-winning novelist, who wrote about colonizing Mars in his Mars trilogy - Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars - spoke to Bloomberg about Musk’s big plans. However, a famous science fiction author, who has written about the Red Planet extensively, says that the SpaceX CEO’s plans are, themselves, the stuff of outlandish fiction. By: Kim Stanley Robinson Narrated by: Richard Ferrone Length: 27 hrs and 10 mins Release date: 03-31-08 Language: English 2,259 ratings Regular price: 41.99 Book 3 Sample Blue Mars By: Kim Stanley Robinson Narrated by: Richard Ferrone Length: 31 hrs and 55 mins Release date: 03-28-08 Language: English 1,734 ratings Regular price: 41. Elon Musk is a dreamer, and that’s a good thing, because it takes people with big dreams to do crazy things like travel to Mars.

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