VIDEO: Elon Musk thinks if we nuke Mars, it'll become a livable planet quicker than any other method

09/11/2015 - 07:05

Simon Sharwood | @ssharwood


Billionaire electric car, battery and rocketry tycoon Elon Musk has suggested that humanity should nuke mars before we try to move there.

Musk appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday and declared Mars “a fixer-upper of a planet.”

To begin with, Musk said, human residents on the red planet would need to live in “transparent domes”. Before a move to more hospitable habitats one needs only “to warm it up” and Musk thinks there's a fast way and a slow way to do that.

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