There is no doubt that Elon Musk has one, or rather, many, long -term visions. Microchips in the brain, omnipresent artificial intelligence, which the United States dominates the planet … but one of the most publicized is its intention to colonize Mars. And it is in this context that he affirmed that The earth has just 10% time until life is unsustainable.
Spacex’s founding billionaire has been stating that Humanity needs to expand its presence in the solar system, Specifically, Mars, which is the most appropriate and attainable objective, so as not to extinguish us.
However, that conditional only applies in the short term; In the very long term, something bad will happen without a doubt. The reality is that the sun will become a fireball that will raise the temperatures that life will not be viable, something of the star evolution. But it will happen in hundreds of millions of years.
Unless we humans are going, that will probably be the end of life as we know it. The coup of grace will arrive within about five billion years, when our expanded red giant sun involves and incinerates the poor land.
Musk referred to this unfortunate destination in a recent interview with Fox News presenter, Jesse Watters, who asked him why he is so obsessed with the red planet. “That is one of Mars’s benefits: it is life for collective life – Musk told Watters in the interview – so, eventually, all life on earth will be destroyed by the sun. The Sun is gradually expanding, so at some point we will need to be a multiphendary civilization, because the earth will be incinerated ”.
🚨ELON: EARTH ONLY HAS 10% OF ITS LIFE LEFT
& quot; The Sun eventually Burning Earth – This is not a dispute fact.
Earth’s Been Around 4.5 Billion Years, and It Only Has About 10% More Life in It Before it Gets So Hot Life is impossible.
We have to set up plans to leave and spread … https://t.co/tbt8mb0bkjpic.twitter.com/zyfrd1t5ax
– Mario Nawfal (@marionawfal) May 6, 2025
Musk, who directs the Department of Government Efficiency of the Trump Administration, said that “yes, as fossil records suggest, The land is about 4.5 billion years old, we have 10% of that time before the temperature is so hot that life is impossible. ”
That is a fairly long deadline for Spacex to complete the development and tests of Starship, the totally reusable megacohete that, according to Musk, will make the colonization of Mars economically viable. LA reality is that neither Musk itself, with all its technology, can ensure that, when that time comes, it will be lineing to embark Mars. But according to science, it is not so wrong: in some 500 million years the temperature Average planet could go from 11ºC to 30º. And that would completely change biology.