Video: Here's How Elon Musk Plans to Colonize Mars

There's a consensus in the scientific community that if we as a planet don't come together and enforce some major behavioral changes, Earth will eventually become uninhabitable. I was just talking with a friend the other day about how I wish colonization of other planets was closer to a reality, and along comes Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk with a plan to colonize Mars.

Here's a video showing a brief simulation of how he'd get us to the planet:

Uploaded by SpaceX on 2016-09-27.

And below, you can watch a two hour presentation that goes into much more detail. I really hope that this becomes a reality, and thankfully, with people like Musk trying to push the envelope, it seems more possible than ever before. I realize this is still an early plan, but it's never going to happen unless we try, and with NASA being severely underfunded, I like this as a possible first step forward.

SpaceX Founder, CEO, and Lead Designer Elon Musk will discuss the long-term technical challenges that need to be solved to support the creation of a permanent, self-sustaining human presence on Mars. The technical presentation will focus on potential architectures for sustaining humans on the Red Planet that industry, government and the scientific community can collaborate on in the years ahead.