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ELON : STARSHIP RANKS WITH SINGLE-CELLED LIFE IN EVOLUTIONARY IMPORTANCE Elon placed SpaceX's Starship program among the top ten most significant events in the history of life on Earth, comparing becoming multi-planetary to the emergence of cells and animals leaving the ocean: "If there are historians in the future,... they'll look back at Starship and say it was one of the most profound things that ever happened. You've got things like single-celled life, multi-cellular life, capturing a mitochondria so you have a power plant in the cell, differentiation into plants and animals, life going from oceans to land. Probably in the top ten is life becoming multi-planetary. There just aren't very many things in the top ten of the evolution of life." Elon's not wrong about the scale. Every species that's ever existed has been confined to one planet. If Starship works, humans become the first exception in billions of years. That's not just technology, that's evolutionary divergence. Source: AchieveSuccess on YT / SpaceXshow more

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"If there are historians in future, they'll look back at Starship & say it was one of the most profound things that ever happened. There aren't many things that are in top 10 of evolution of life. If there were a catastrophe on one of the planets, the other planet would survive."

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