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SpaceX Mars City: Werner Herzog issues a stark warning to Elon Musk - Inverse
Nov 20, 2020 1 min, 8 secs

Elon Musk wants to build a city on Mars, but Werner Herzog says the plans is unequivocally a "mistake.".

SpaceX CEO Musk has a plan to send the first humans to Mars in the mid-2020s, using the under-development Starship rocket.

Once they get there, Musk wants to build out a self-sustaining, million-strong city on Mars by 2050.

But famed film director Herzog tells Inverse there is a massive flaw in the latter half of Musk's plan?

In the interview, conducted earlier this month prior to the release of a new documentary on asteroids, Herzog also compares Musk's plan to the rise and collapse of communism and fascism in the 20th century.

Another problem Herzog has with Musk's ambitions is to do with the plan to use the refuelable Starship to fly to Mars, set up a base and means to create more fuel, and then let the ships return home or venture out further by establishing bases along the way.

While Musk's plan for a "multi-planetary species" is ambitious, Herzog is not convinced.

The same will happen to Musk's Mars city, Herzog predicts

Herzog has discussed Musk's Mars ambitions with him before

In the 2016 documentary Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World, Herzog asked Musk during an interview for a "one-way ticket" to Mars, adding that "I'd be your candidate."

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