Elon Musk admits "a bunch of people will probably die" in his Mars landing trials
The history of space exploration is rife with disaster, failures, and tragedy—any efforts to put people in a giant metal rocket and hurl them at space have and probably will continue to result in some deaths along the way. Those are just facts, and they’re really not great, despite Elon Musk’s convivial mood when discussing the probable human casualties of his efforts to land on Mars. The inexplicable future SNL host claims that we are just five years away from a successful Mars landing—hard to believe given that numerous tests conducted in recent months by his company, SpaceX, have resulted in explosions. In an interview with X Prize Foundation’s Peter Diamandis, Musk laughed as he admitted that “a bunch of people will probably die” in his ongoing Mars landing trials. Though the interview was published to YouTube two days before Musk was announced as the next SNL host, it didn’t really start making headlines until yesterday. Musk goes on to say, “We’re not making anyone go… volunteers only!”
