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April 28, 2021
WASHINGTON: Tech billionaire Elon Musk expects some fatal accidents when his company starts sending people to Mars to explore and colonize the red planet, foreign media reported.
“Honestly, a bunch of people will probably die in the beginning,” the SpaceX boss said in a recent interview with XPrize founder Peter Diamandis. “It’s tough sledding over there.”
He said rather than “an escape hatch for rich people,” Mars exploration will be treacherous.
The pitch to get people to go reads more like the ad that Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton used to recruit people for his perilous explorations of Antarctica, he said.
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April 28, 2021
WASHINGTON: Tech billionaire Elon Musk expects some fatal accidents when his company starts sending people to Mars to explore and colonize the red planet, foreign media reported.
“Honestly, a bunch of people will probably die in the beginning,” the SpaceX boss said in a recent interview with XPrize founder Peter Diamandis. “It’s tough sledding over there.” He said rather than “an escape hatch for rich people,” Mars exploration will be treacherous. The pitch to get people to go reads more like the ad that Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton used to recruit people for his perilous explorations of Antarctica, he said.
‘Freedom is not for the gays’ No protection 27 years into democracy, activists say PREMIUM
Zamandulo Malonde Features reporter 28 April 2021
Freedom Day will mean nothing to members of SA’s LGBTQI+ community as long as queer people continue to be killed and persecuted.
That was the unequivocal message from lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) activists as a march to the Union Buildings in Pretoria was held on Tuesday to honour slain Nelson Mandela Bay resident Andile “Lulu’ Ntuthela, murdered in March allegedly because of his sexual orientation. ..
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