Neil deGrasse Tyson Slams Elon Musk's Plans for Mars Colonization

“I don’t see it happening until governments judge that it’s geopolitically in our interest.”Um, ActuallyFamed astrophysicist and science fiction pedant Neil deGrasse Tyson doesn’t think very highly of multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk’s desperate desire to deliver humanity to Mars.During a chat with Bill Maher — who has plenty of quibbles with the plan himself — last week, the pair took aim at Musk’s plan to make humanity “interplanetary” by establishing a city on the Red Planet.”I don’t see it happening until governments judge that it’s geopolitically in our interest,” deGrasse…

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