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Elon Musk: Once we're on Mars, we can establish colonies elsewhere in the solar system. “Mars is the next natural step. It's the only planet we really have a shot at establishing a self-sustaining city on. Once we do establish such a city, there will be a strong forcing function for the improvement of spaceflight technology that will then enable us to establish colonies elsewhere in the solar system and ultimately extend beyond our solar system.” Interview at Start Me Up Hong Kong, January 26, 2016

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Elon Musk: Everything is solar power. The rest is noise. “The sun is about 99.8% of the mass of the solar system. Jupiter's about 0.1% and everything else is in the remaining 0.1%, and we are much less than 0.1%. So, if you burnt all of the mass of the solar system, then the total energy produced by the sun would still round up to 100%. If you just burnt Earth, the whole planet, and burnt Jupiter, which is very big and quite challenging to burn, turn Jupiter into a thermonuclear reactor, the sun is 99.8% of the mass of the solar system and everything else is in the miscellaneous category. Basically, no matter what you do, total energy produced in our solar system rounds up to 100% from the sun. You could even throw another Jupiter in, so we're going to snag a Jupiter from somewhere else, you could teleport two more Jupiters into our solar system, burn them, and the sun would still round up to 100%. As long as you're at 99.6%, you're still rounding up to 100%. Maybe that gives some perspective of why solar is really the thing that matters. And, as soon as you start thinking about things at a grander scale, like Kardashev Scale 2 civilizations, it becomes very, very obvious. I'm not saying anything that's new, by the way. Anyone who studies physics has known this for a very long time. In fact, Kardashev, a Russian physicist who came up with this idea, I think, in the 1960s, just as a way to classify civilizations, where Kardashev Scale 1 would be, you've harnessed most of the energy of the planet, Kardashev Scale 2, you've harnessed most of the energy of your sun, Kardashev 3, you've harnessed most of the energy of a galaxy. Now we're only about 1% or a few percent of Kardashev Scale 1 right now, optimistically. But as soon as you go to Kardashev Scale 2, where you're talking about the power of the sun, then you're really just saying everything is solar power and the rest is in the noise. Like, the sun produces about a billion times, or call it well over a billion times more energy than everything on Earth combined.” All-In Podcast, October 31, 2025

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Stephenson 2-18, the biggest mf star in the known Universe. Larger than UY Scuti, Antares, Vy Canis Majoris, you name it. 🤩 The estimated radius is about 2,150 times that of the Sun, and the volume is 10 billion Suns. If Stephenson 2-18 replaced the Sun in the solar system, its photosphere would extend beyond the orbit of Saturn. It would take earth’s fastest jet over 500 years to travel around. It would take almost 9 hours at the speed of light. Data from @planets_education.org Video from / tiktok / spacenstuff
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Stephenson 2-18, the biggest mf star in the known Universe. Larger than UY Scuti, Antares, Vy Canis Majoris, you name it. 🤩 The estimated radius is about 2,150 times that of the Sun, and the volume is 10 billion Suns. If Stephenson 2-18 replaced the Sun in the solar system, its photosphere would extend beyond the orbit of Saturn. It would take earth’s fastest jet over 500 years to travel around. It would take almost 9 hours at the speed of light. Data from @planets_education.org Video from / tiktok / spacenstuff

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