The SpaceX founder knows what he’s talking about, Roscosmos head Yury Borisov has said
There might be something to SpaceX head Elon Musk’s opinions about extraterrestrial civilizations, Roscosmos Director-General Yury Borisov has said.
Speaking at a Milken Institute conference in Los Angeles on Monday, Musk speculated that space probes might find ruins of ancient civilizations somewhere out there.
“Musk is an authority on this, he should probably be believed,” Borisov told TASS on Tuesday, when asked about the tech entrepreneur’s comments.
Roscosmos has had a friendly rivalry with SpaceX in recent years, as NASA began delegating the bulk of American space projects to Musk’s private company.
“We want to make sure that the Apollo [program] is not the high-water mark” of human space exploration, Musk argued on Monday at the Milken Institute event.
Explaining his long-running argument about the need for humanity to be a “multi-planet civilization,” Musk argued that any species that fails to do so is basically just waiting to be wiped out.