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🚨NEW: Elon Musk explains his vision for future space exploration, mass drivers, and harnessing the power of the sun. "In order to understand the universe, you must explore the universe. We're only using roughly 1% of the potential energy of Earth. The only way to access the energy of the sun is to expand beyond Earth. We then need to extend to the galaxy and other galaxies. The next step beyond Earth datacenters are Earth Orbital datacenters. It will be 100-200 GW/year. We see a path to 1 TW/year. By being on the moon, building AI satellites, and having a real mass driver on the moon, we can go to 1000GW+ year. You could even work your way up to a few % of the sun's energy. It's difficult to imagine what an intelligence of that scale would think about but it will be exciting to see what happens. I want to see a mass driver on the moon go SHOOM SHOOM! One after the other, shooting satellites into space. I can't think of anything more exciting. Maybe we'll meet aliens. Maybe we'll see remnants of ancient civilizations. But the only way we're going to do that is to get out there and explore."

ELON MUSK: “Our progress toward a Kardashev Type II civilization, let’s have an aspiration that if we say that our goal is to get even a millionth of the Sun’s energy, that would be more than 1,000 times as much energy as could possibly be produced on Earth. About half a billionth of the Sun’s energy reaches Earth, so you would have to go up three orders of magnitude from that just to get to a millionth. We are very, very, very far from even having a billionth of the Sun’s energy harnessed in any way. So a reasonable goal would be to try to get to a millionth.”

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