{"id":1760,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/15\/elon-musk-urged-to-send-only-one-person-to-mars-by-top-scientist\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:10","slug":"elon-musk-urged-to-send-only-one-person-to-mars-by-top-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/elon-musk-urged-to-send-only-one-person-to-mars-by-top-scientist\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk urged to send only one person to Mars by top scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-10-15 16:06:16<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Elon Musk should only send one person to Mars to avoid contaminating the planet.<BR><br \/>\nThe billionaire SpaceX tycoon is hoping to put over a million humans on the Red Planet but a leading scientist has urged the maverick entrepreneur to scale down his ambitions.<BR><br \/>\nAndrew Coates, a professor of physics at University College London (UCL) told BBC Radio 4&#8217;s &#8216;Today&#8217; programme: &#8220;One person may be okay eventually, but there are risks of contamination.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Eventually, Elon Musk would like to be taking people to the Moon and onto Mars&#8230; I think we have to be careful on the latter one.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;The last thing we need to be doing is taking life from Earth to Mars. Robotic exploration is the way to go.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nProfessor Coates has no such fears about humans going to the Moon in large numbers.<BR><br \/>\nHe said: &#8220;The moon is absolutely no problem, we can do that.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;But I think we are going on to Mars with a lot of people and that is where we have to start worrying.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Jumping to conclusions about colonising Mars, which is one of the stated aims, is something we would like to avoid in the future, personally.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-10-15 16:06:16 Elon Musk should only send one person to Mars to avoid contaminating the planet. The billionaire SpaceX tycoon is hoping to put over a million humans on the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1761,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions\/1761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}