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Elon Musk, Tesla Motors and SpaceX CEO, has made it a habit to make headlines for thinking outside the box. Far outside the box.
Over two years ago, Musk announced that Tesla’s patents were no longer active. Originally, Musk saw the patents as a protective step against competitors, but ultimately it was decided that the benefit outweighed the risk of removing them.
“Technology leadership is not defined by patents, which history has repeatedly shown to be small protection indeed against a determined competitor, but rather by the ability of a company to attract and motivate the world’s most talented engineers,” he said.
In 2014, the world was also introduced to the Gigafactory. It’s the visionary’s response to future demand. The battery is the single most-expensive component of electric vehicles. However, rail-lines in the Nevada desert will transport ore from lithium mines. Completed battery packs shipped to Tesla’s facility in Fremont, California will, hopefully, allow them to reach max capacity: 500,000 new vehicles each year. Thus far it’s a feat they have yet to accomplish.
And now, Musk has a plan that will make even his past innovations pale in comparison. For years, he has spoken about about his desires to live, and even die, on the red planet. But his company SpaceX has plans for how we can become an “interplanetary” species, and it makes all of his preceding plans seem tame in comparison.
In September, at the International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, he outlined a plan that will get the human race to Mars in six, short years.
“He said there were ‘two fundamental paths’ facing humanity today. ‘One is that we stay on Earth forever and then there will be an inevitable extinction event,’ he said. ‘The alternative is to become a spacefaring civilization, and a multi-planetary species.’”
At this point, the plan seems outlandish at best, especially given Musks’ timeline. However, mankind often enjoys poking fun at those who dream big, and as history shows (Just ask the Wright brothers.), sometimes even the biggest plans, become reality.
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