LIVE: This is Elon Musk's plan to colonize Mars
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Tech billionaire and SpaceX founder Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars with a million people in an effort to protect humanity from certain doom.
To that end, Musk is giving a keynote talk at the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he's unveiling his ambitious plans to establish a human settlement on the red planet.
You can watch the event live on YouTube. (There's also an embedded video player at the end of this post.)
Here's what we've learned so far.
"We're figuring out how to take you to Mars and build a self-sustaining city," Musk told the crowd, "to become a truly multiplanetary species."
Keep refreshing this post to see the latest updates.
Here's the livestream:
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