Mr Musk spoke about the importance of building a self-sustaining city on Mars and how it is one of the most important things we can do to ensure \"the long-term existence of consciousness\".<\/p>\n
He said: \"I think there's arguably a great filter that we face with, you know, will we become a multi-planet species or not.<\/p>\n
\"You know, we'll be surprised if out there in our galaxy and others, there are a whole bunch of dead one-planet civilisations that prospered for a while - they might have prospered for millions of years - but then gradually the civilisation collapsed for reasons externals or internal and that was that.<\/p>\n
\"All civilisations go through an arc where they build, they grow up in technology complexity but then they don't keep going up, they, over time they decline and they fall.<\/p>\n
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End of the world: Elon Musk warns of 'civilisation collapse' if we don't leave Earth soon - Daily Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mr Musk spoke about the importance of building a self-sustaining city on Mars and how it is one of the most important things we can do to ensure \"the long-term existence of consciousness\". He said: \"I think there's arguably a great filter that we face with, you know, will we become a multi-planet species or not. Continue reading