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Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees by Trisell on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @12:30AM (#16855471)
I could agree with some of it. But he’s also said many times that he feels the only way to keep humans from going extinct is to make humanity a multi-planetary species, so while he maybe trying to fix some things his pretty clearly stated goal is to get humans off this rock permanently.

http://earthsky.org/space/elon-musk-mars-manifesto-humans-mu...

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Re:The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees by itslennysfault on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @04:33AM (#16856531)
> multi-planetary species

...That means fix Earth too. We / he certainly doesn't want to trade Earth for Mars. Mars is just a good place to store a backup of humanity.

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