Elon Musk Denies Donating Sperm to Colonize Mars After NYT Article | Science & Health

Great amazement Elon Musk with Mars One of the businessman’s motivations for founding the company was SpaceXin 2022. Musk has stated on more than one occasion that the existence of the human race depends on colonizing the planet. Now the CEO of Tesla He has to deny that he proposed donating sperm to start an off-planet colony.

Musk X (formerly Twitter) used it to state that he has made no biological contribution to a potential Mars colony — and that SpaceX has no plans to design a city project on the Red Planet.

“No one at SpaceX has been directed to work on a city on Mars,” the billionaire added. “When people asked to do it, I said we need to focus on getting there first.”

The statement came after The New York Times published an article with more than 20 people close to Musk and SpaceX employees. Documents obtained by the rover indicate that some of the company’s teams were studying what type of habitat would be best for Mars and that the medical team was studying the possibility of reproduction on the planet. Two people claimed that the Tesla CEO had volunteered to donate sperm to help the colony grow.

Although Musk has already donated sperm for the experiment, others have donated Scientists Interviewed by Business Insider They remain skeptical about the chances of a pregnant woman having a healthy pregnancy on Mars — because of the low gravity and high radiation levels on the planet.