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Elon Musk Tweets Image of SpaceX’s Stainless Steel Starship

Big Picture Christmas came early for Elon Musk’s Twitter followers. The SpaceX CEO took to the social media platform on Christmas Eve to share a new image of a prototype version of the Starship spacecraft at the company’s Texas testing facilities. The massive rocket with the ever-changing name — it was previously known as the “Mars

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The Inside Scoop on Elon Musk’s Plan to Make “Insurance for Life as We Know It”

In a recent interview, Elon Musk told Rolling Stone he believes humanity must become a multiplanetary species, calling it “insurance of life as we know it.” If Earth could no longer sustain humanity, colonies on other planets would ensure the species continues to live on.

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Elon Musk: SpaceX’s “BFR” Rocket Will Do More Than Take Us to Mars

On the last day of the 68th IAC held in Adelaide, Australia, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk gave a long-awaited update about on his plans for Mars. He talked about changes on rocket design, as well as potential other uses for the BFR.

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Humanity Is About to Transition To “Evolution by Intelligent Direction”

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Humanity is poised to experience a dramatic shift as we transition from the slow and random process of “Darwinian natural selection” to a hyper-accelerated and precisely directed period of “evolution by intelligent direction.”

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Stephen Hawking: “I Am Convinced That Humans Need to Leave Earth”

Stephen Hawking wants humankind to land on the Moon by the 2020s. Speaking at the Starmus Festival in Trondheim, Norway he spoke about the importance of a lunar mission as a stepping stone for getting us to Mars and beyond.

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In Order to Ensure Our Survival, We Must Become a Multi-Planetary Species

A number of experts agree that humanity needs to become a multi-planetary species within the next 100 years to ensure its survival into the future. The current state of the planet cannot support life indefinitely, especially when so many are resistant to sustainability.

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Elon Musk Has a New Timeline for Humans Living on Mars

SpaceX has changed their timeline for a manned mission to Mars a couple of times but has recently stated that they will definitely launch their lander by 2020. This new timeline will allow SpaceX to devote energy to other important projects while pursuing this expedition.

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Peter Diamandis Thinks We’re Evolving Toward “Meta-Intelligence”

Peter Diamandis, founder and chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, thinks the human species is headed for an evolutionary transformation. The evolution of life has slowly unfolded over 3.5 billion years; but its pace has rapidly increased in recent years. Diamandis believes this heralds the next, exciting stages of human evolution.

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Elon Musk’s Dream For Colonizing Mars Just Took A Massive Step Forward

SpaceX founder Elon Musk said he will put a person on Mars by 2025. Today, Musk stated that there are four key things we will need to get there: full reusability, refilling in orbit, propellant production on Mars, and a propellant that works.

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It’s No Longer a Question “If” We Will Colonize Mars, but Merely “When”

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As the race towards colonizing Mars moves forward, the mission to make humans a multiplanetary species is coming closer to reality. It’s now just a question of when and who.