“The future of humanity is fundamentally going to bifurcate along one of two directions: Either we’re going to become a multiplanet species and a spacefaring civilization, or we’re going be stuck on one planet until some eventual extinction event.” In a much anticipated event, Elon Musk laid out his plan for getting humans to Mars, and building a settlement there. “In short, Musk thinks it’s possible to begin shuttling thousands of people between Earth and our smaller, redder neighbor sometime within the next decade or so. And not too long after that–perhaps 40 or a hundred years later, Mars could be home to a self-sustaining colony of a million people.”

+ Is the plan feasible? I’m a Humanities major. I don’t think it’s feasible to come to an agreement on the correct usage of the Oxford comma. So let’s ask the folks over at Ars Technica: Musk’s Mars moment: Audacity, madness, brilliance–or maybe all three.

+ Vox: Elon Musk’s plan to colonize Mars is wonderfully bonkers. It’s pretty amazing that we live in an age when a CEO of two public companies can give a talk about colonizing Mars and shareholders don’t see that as a warning signal. But I’m a natural skeptic. I never even believed Amazon could provide free shipping to Prime members.