#13 Elon Musk and Why SpaceX Will Colonize Mars

**David Senra** (0:00)
I want to tell you about a one-time only limited event that I don't think you're going to want to miss. I am doing a live show with Patrick O'Shaughnessy from the Invest Like the Best podcast in New York City on October 19th. Patrick has interviewed over 300 of the world's best investors and founders for his podcast. I've read over 300 biographies of history's greatest entrepreneurs for my podcast. We'll be talking about what we learned from seven years of podcasting, sharing our favorite ideas and stories, and doing a live Q&A. There will also be special event-only swag. If you live in New York City, I think it's a no-brainer. But if not, I think it's a great excuse to fly in. I've already heard from a bunch of people that bought tickets, they're flying in from other cities. Some people are flying in from other countries. That's setting the bar really high, so I will have at least four shots of espresso or four energy drinks before or during the show, so we can make it a night that you'll never forget. If you're interested in attending this unique live event, I will leave a link down below. I highly recommend you get your tickets today, and I hope I get to see you in New York on October 19th. We made it to part three of the Elon Musk Blog Series by Wait But Why. So today, I want to talk to you about the post that's called How and Why SpaceX Will Colonize Mars. So this is the first Founders podcast that you've listened to. Make sure you subscribe. Every week, I usually read a biography of a new founder or entrepreneur, and then just share some of the stuff I thought was interesting and some of the stuff I learned about their life and their career. This one, we're in the middle of a series. It's a little different. It's not a book this time, but a book-length blog post. It's actually a Kindle book, too. If you read it all together, the blog posts take about seven and a half hours to read. This one's a little longer than the one we did last week on Tesla. This one takes about two and a half to three hours to read. So obviously, I'm not gonna read the whole thing. I never do. Just gonna pull out some parts that are interesting, that I found interesting that I wanted to share with you today. And then I'm gonna do the best job I can. Keep in mind, as I referenced in the last two podcasts, the way Tim Urban, who's the founder of Wait But Why, the way he writes is so, he starts at a foundational level and builds from there. Does a really good job of introducing you slowly and then taking you on this journey and helping you understand a little bit by bit. So since I'm just pulling out different excerpts, hopefully I pulled it out and put an arrangement in a way that makes sense. But to get the full story, of course, just go to waitbutwhy.com, search for Elon Musk Blog Series. You can read it for free online. And if you really like what Tim's doing, you can buy the Kindle version. I left a link at founderspodcast.com. That's the version I'm gonna be, I'm working off of. All right, so in this section, the note I put next to it is called Setting Up the Scene, and I'm just gonna get right into the post.
Emerging from a 3.6 billion year dream, life on Earth had its first questions. What is this big room we're in? And who put us here? What is that bright yellow circle on the ceiling? And where does it go every night? Where does the ocean end? And what happens when you get there?
Where are all the dead people now that they're not here anymore?
We had discovered our species' great mystery novel, Where Are We? And we wanted to learn how to read it. Around 10,000 years ago, isolated tribes of humans began to merge together and form their first cities. In larger communities, people were able to talk to each other about this mystery novel we had found, comparing notes across tribes and through the generations. As the techniques for learning became more sophisticated and the clues piled up, new discoveries surfaced. The world was apparently a ball, not a disk, which means that the ceiling was actually a larger sphere surrounding us. The sizes of the other objects floating out there in that sphere with us and the distances between them were vaster than we had ever imagined. And then, something upsetting. The sun wasn't revolving around us. We were revolving around the sun.