Elon Musk Trying To Send Humans To Mars Is A Brilliant Business Move

ABC News — Elon Musk’s dream of sending humans to Mars could come true in the next decade.

Speaking at Vox Media’s Code Conference, the SpaceX CEO said he believes it’s possible to send the first humans to the Red Planet by 2025.

“If things go according to plan, we should be able to launch people probably in 2024 with arrival in 2025,” Musk said. His timeline puts the privately held SpaceX ahead of NASA’s goal of sending the first astronauts to Mars sometime in the 2030s.

Elon Musk is eager to get to Mars for one reason only: to be the first to purchase real estate. As a Silicon Valley guy, Elon has seen firsthand the real estate market blow up and is looking for the next real estate opportunity.

Once he figures out the whole shipping people to another planet thing, he will immediately start sending boatloads spaceships full of people. I guarantee he will start by shipping 2 types of people: hipsters and techies. Nobody makes a new location in demand more than those 2 subgroups, just look at what they have done to Brooklyn and Silicon Valley. Then it’s only a matter of time till Mars is littered with art galleries, coffee shops and incubators. Once that happens, people will be lining up to buy real estate and who will they have to buy it from, Mr. Elon Musk. Brilliant.