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ELON MUSK, THE CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, has an idea for how to colonize Mars and make it habitable for humankind.
On “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” Colbert compared Musk to Tony Stark, the fictional tech tycoon who also happens to be Iron Man. ”Are you really trying to save the world?” Colbert asked Musk.
Colbert then asked Musk why people should want to live on Mars. Mars is “a fixer-upper of a planet,” Musk replied.
But people could theoretically live there, he said, by warming it up in one of two ways.
The fastest way to heat up Mars, according to Elon Musk, is to ”drop thermonuclear weapons over the poles.” The slower way would be to introduce greenhouse gases to Mars to warm it up over a number of years.
“You’re a supervillain!” Colbert said in response. “Superman doesn’t say ‘let’s drop nuclear bombs.’ That’s Lex Luthor, man.”
Besides discussing the possibility of nuking Mars to make it hospitable for humans, Colbert told his studio audience that he thinks Musk should run for US president. Musk’s particular vision of the future — dropping nuclear bombs on Mars to make it more habitable and all — “truly moved” Colbert, he said.
The notion of dropping nuclear bombs on Mars to make it habitable is only one of Musk’s stranger ideas. He’s also voiced his concern about robots potentially destroying humankind. To that end, he’s pledged $10 million for research to make sure AI doesn’t turn out evil.
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Great album….. Happy days when we got free CD with the Sunday papers… If I didn’t want it I threw it out…. Same principles apply…. Well done to the Irish lads..
I think now is the time to call it a day. Don’t get me wrong I love an awful lot of U2′s songs but that last album was like water boarding
I couldn’t disagree more.
Their last album imho was lyrically their best since Joshua tree and R&H (2 albums that defined my childhood)
It is clearly obvious they are still relevant. They still want to produce original material (unlike some of their peers)
If they were to call it a day then I’d have another bad taste in my mouth rather like when REM split.
Tom, everyone to their own but its the live performances that are amazing. “Every Breaking Wave” is a tremendous song live and the emotion that’s in it is amazing. You should give the album a chance. Plus U2 write and play their own instruments too. A bonus
I’ll be honest, when I listened to their new album the very first time, I wasn’t that impressed with it. But after listening to it probably 100+ times since it was released, I now think it’s one of the best albums they’ve made. The lyrics are excellent and the stories behind each song are brilliant.
“Every Breaking Wave”, “Song For Someone”, and “Raised By Wolves” are probably my favourite songs from the album. Keep up the great work lads. Roll on the world tour!
Thank god it’s not free. I don’t want that shite on my phone
Their next album will be entitled “gift Horse”.
Sure poor Sinead is high on the smell of her own Bull poo ……….
At least I won’t have to go through the effort of deleting it this time.
Ohh Ohh Bono
Will it be in Dutch with English subtitles?
Will it be filmed in your new premises on the quays?
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/sale-of-u2s-dublin-docklands-studio-queried-by-watchdog-30671173.html
Will you be asking us all to give generous charitable donations whilst you and the rest of your tax dodging band members keep your hands firmly in your pockets?
Yeah because we know you and everyone else likes to pay the max amount of tax you possibly can. Idiot.
Yeah, who wants to pay the max tax possible? They pay tax here. The Dutch thing is just for part of their income. Not a U2 fan.
In that case we should all be permitted to do it.
And if we were allowed to do so.
Tell me who would keep the basic public services going here?
Bono continually claims that he’s Irish.
He even lives here.
He ponces around telling us all to give generously to chip in.
Yet he skives of when it comes to paying his own taxes and picks up prime property behind closed doors courtesy of the Irish taxpayer.
That really says just how much he cares for his countrymen/women.
He’d probably have to pay feck all tax here anyway, due to our low corporation tax policies.
Why not?
If they just bought 1 round for the country they’d be Heros!
Mine’s a pint lads, cheers.
Wooohoooo. Let joy be unconfined :-/ any sign of the money for the ebola victims, lads?
Sure somebodys got to pay to fix the door on his private jet!!! Ohhh no the profit he makes off singing to help the poor and the poor misfortunes with ebola will make him enough for a new jet!!! Somebody just please just kill him!
He doesn’t own private jet! Only leased!
Let he who has done, or tried to do, more to help make the world a better place, cast the first stone.
If your big thing was making the world a better place then why would you be throwing stones at people
Was listening to some Van Morrison earlier. For once I agreed with Bono
[Bono:]
Well tonight thank God it’s Them instead of U2
Sure Van Morrisson is a dick.
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