Elon Musk Doesn't Expect He'll Live To See Humans On Mars
Reuters Elon Musk Today at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, the hottest lecture was a forum with Elon Musk, inventor and potential supervillain. Excitement was high, and the line to get in was absolutely massive. Luckily, Popular Science reporters are excellent at waiting in line, and with much patience got into the highly anticipated forum. Musk knew his audience, sprinkling his answers to interview questions with statements like “I am super into science”, advocating the wildly controversial opinion that increased science funding is actually a good idea, and saying that "I do think geoscience is very important." But really, what else are you going to tell a conference of over 23,000 geoscientists? With the next launch of his Falcon 9 rocket approaching this weekend and the spectacular explosion of the last rocket...