Musk predicts Earth will be uninhabitable in 500 million years

American entrepreneur Ilon Musk said on Friday, December 27, that the Earth will become uninhabitable in 500 million years.

"The expansion of our Sun could make Earth uninhabitable in 10% of that time (500 million years - Ed.)," he wrote on his page in the social network X (former Twitter).

According to Musk, Mars represents the best chance for humanity to preserve life, added "Gazeta.Ru".

Earlier, on November 24, Musk called for the colonization of Mars. He has repeatedly expressed that humanity can survive only if it begins to develop other planets.

Before that, on September 8, Musk said that the first unmanned flights of the Starship spacecraft to Mars are planned in two years. He specified: if these landings are successful, the first manned flights will start in four years. Also, the frequency of flights to Mars will begin to grow exponentially, as the plan is to build a "self-sustaining" city on the planet in the next 20 years, said the billionaire.

In July, the SpaceX founder made a proposal to create a base with a permanent settlement on the moon.

In May, Musk said it would take about a million years to colonize the galaxy. He also said that no signs of alien life had been detected and found it amusing that many who do not believe that man has been to the moon are convinced that aliens exist. However, he said that mankind could find "remnants of a long-gone alien civilization" while exploring space.