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The Colonization of Mars
Founder and CEO
At the International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia…
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk presented his vision for a massive human colony on Mars.
Elon Musk’s vision for a colony on Mars | Source: IAC
It was breathtaking. And to most people, it was literally unbelievable.
A colony large enough to be self-sustaining, with its own energy and food production, as well as transportation infrastructure to and from Earth.
It was the stuff of science fiction – except that it felt very real.
Real because it wasn’t a planetary scientist presenting a vision with no means to get there…
It was Musk who was building the means to make it all happen, with his aerospace company SpaceX.
He was literally building the “Mars Transportation Architecture” to shuttle people, equipment, and materials to make it all possible.
Better yet, Musk had already demonstrated his reusable rocket technology with the Falcon 9, which had already been in commercial service for years.
He was speaking from a position of having already accomplished something that many thought to be impossible, including former NASA astronauts.
Elon Musk Presenting at the International Astronautical Congress | Source: IAC
For those of us familiar with Musk’s recent presentations and interviews, this will also sound familiar.
But what’s incredible is that Musk gave that presentation in Adelaide back in 2017, nearly a decade ago.
Ambitions in Adelaide
Despite what Musk and his team at SpaceX have accomplished over the last 20 years – which is nothing short of fantastical and pure engineering brilliance pushing the absolute limits of physics there are still dyed-in-the-wool Elon Musk skeptics who suggest he is nothing more than a snake oil salesman who always misses his targets.
They use examples like the one below.
In 2017, Musk stated SpaceX’s goals of launching two Starship cargo missions to Mars in 2022, followed by two more cargo missions with two crew missions to Mars in 2024.
Clearly, that didn’t happen. Not yet anyway.
In Musk’s defense, he said at the time when presenting the above slide, “That’s not a typo, but it is aspirational.”
Musk threw the gauntlet down, presenting his vision to inspire his team at SpaceX – and the industry as a whole – to radically rethink what is possible in space exploration.
The goal was not just to rethink the engineering and technology, but to rethink the time frames in which this kind of vision could be accomplished.
What the skeptics don’t see is that this vision isn’t just a fancy presentation.
It is backed by bleeding-edge engineering and concrete initiatives by Musk and his team at SpaceX to make it happen.
And making it happen, he is.
TeraFab Is On!
Just within the last 24 hours, a public notice has been published in Grimes County, Texas, for a public hearing regarding Musk’s TeraFab, which is planned to become the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturing plant.
Source: Grimes County, Texas, Government Office
As shown above, the initial investment is $55 billion, and the total capital investment could reach as much as $119 billion.
Musk can’t get enough semiconductor production from the industry, so he is doing something about it.
He is building his own fab (semiconductor fabrication plant).
Most people aren’t even aware that SpaceX is already building a semiconductor plant in Bastrop, Texas.
Equipment is literally being installed right now.
The plan is to begin high-volume production of semiconductors for SpaceX’s Starlink project by the end of this year.
This manufacturing plant is actually an advanced chip-packaging plant for Starlink’s RF semiconductors, as opposed to the TeraFab, which will manufacture the semiconductors.
Chip packaging takes the actual semiconductor (the die) and encases it in a protective case with either wire bonding or solder balls so that the packaged semiconductor can be connected to a circuit board.
And if this latest development weren’t enough, well-founded rumors have surfaced that SpaceX has acquired 136,000 acres of land in Pecan Island and Freshwater City, Louisiana.
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More Space for SpaceX
It is believed that SpaceX conducted a private transaction with ExxonMobil (XOM), which owned 125,000 acres for a “carbon capture and storage project” in the area.
Additional acreage was likely acquired from adjacent smaller landowners.
For perspective, 136,000 acres is about 212.5 square miles.
The current SpaceX Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, is about 1,000 acres.
And SpaceX plans to expand that footprint by adding another 7,100 acres.
This new Louisiana land purchase dwarfs that.
The reality is that SpaceX needs more space for more manufacturing and launch capabilities to achieve its vision.
As a reminder, SpaceX – through its xAI division – is already working towards its stated plans to launch 1 million AI data center satellites into a sun-synchronous orbit.
Regular launches on SpaceX Starships will commence within 30 months, and it is expected that SpaceX will launch multiple Starships every single day.
To state the obvious, SpaceX would not be able to launch at that kind of cadence at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County, California, where many of SpaceX’s current Falcon 9 launches take place. The base simply isn’t large enough to handle that kind of volume.
SpaceX needs more space…and the Louisiana purchase would be suitable for launches to a sun-synchronous orbit.
And if that weren’t enough, last week, SpaceX’s board actually approved a new compensation plan for Elon Musk that directly ties his compensation to building out the 1 million AI data center satellite constellation and the colonization of Mars.
No, I am not kidding.
An Extraterrestrial Incentive
The new compensation package awards Musk 200 million super-voting restricted shares of SpaceX when Musk hits a $7.5 trillion valuation and establishes a permanent human settlement on Mars with one million residents.
Part of the new comp package also includes space-based computational infrastructure capable of 100 terawatts of processing power.
It goes without saying that this is the most extraordinary compensation structure in history. The outer limits of what might be possible. An extraterrestrial incentive plan.
I can almost hear the skeptics chortling and cackling.
Impossible, they say.
Absurd!
But if we understand Musk and his objectives, it makes perfect sense.
For Musk, it’s not about the money. The compensation plan is about Musk maintaining enough control over SpaceX so he can achieve his personal goals.
His goal is to expand human consciousness to the stars.
He wants to create a backup of human civilization on Mars, in case things go wrong on Earth.
So, he’s taking concrete actions to build what is necessary to make that happen.
And he intends to get it done in his lifetime and give the greatest gift to humanity that could ever be given.
Life. Longevity. Amongst the stars.
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