During his appearance CBS' new The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, SpaceX and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk said that Mars could be made more Earth-like by bombarding it with thermonuclear bombs.
Musk, who wants to colonize the Mars and visit the Red Planet himself one day, believes the planet could be made hospitable in two drastically different ways.
“It is a fixer upper of a planet,” he said. “At first you are going to have to live in transparent domes but eventually you can transform Mars into an Earth-like planet. You’d warm it up. Just warm it up. There’s the fast way and the slow way. The fast way is to drop thermonuclear weapons over the poles.”
Colbert responded by likening the entrepreneur to a supervillain, saying "You’re a supervillain! That’s what a supervillain does. Superman doesn't say, 'Let's drop nuclear bombs.' That's Lex Luthor, man."
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Musk, who wants to colonize the Mars and visit the Red Planet himself one day, believes the planet could be made hospitable in two drastically different ways.
“It is a fixer upper of a planet,” he said. “At first you are going to have to live in transparent domes but eventually you can transform Mars into an Earth-like planet. You’d warm it up. Just warm it up. There’s the fast way and the slow way. The fast way is to drop thermonuclear weapons over the poles.”
Colbert responded by likening the entrepreneur to a supervillain, saying "You’re a supervillain! That’s what a supervillain does. Superman doesn't say, 'Let's drop nuclear bombs.' That's Lex Luthor, man."
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