Angus Pearson
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Hesitations have been edited out for readability’s sake, unless they are contextually useful. Words that I was unable to hear are marked within square brackets: […]. Any words I’m unsure about are also in [square brackets]. My comments are in {Curly braces}. Emphasis is mine.
This is the transcript taken from the below recording, with times added above each speaker.
{The first question Musk answers is not included in the recording.}
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Musk:
Any [enterprise you can imagine] on Mars, things that are, we [take for granted] on Earth as well as things that [won’t exist anywhere] but Mars, so we’re [like the Union Pacific1] so, our goal is to get people there, we’ll need to construct the initial propellant plant to produce [much] propellant on Mars, and so the initial, [obviously] the Mars spaceport and the sort of the beginnings of [a key] central element [of] a Mars base and then thereafter, um, and we definitely wanna make sure we [don’t infringe] upon the opportunities that people may have to create things on Mars, and if [people thought that] SpaceX is just gonna do that then they [they’ll] be less willing to do it so [we’re really] trying to create a conduit to Mars to enable people to do an incredible [number of] things there.. [And just like how the Union Pacific, sort of, made California really,] um, we’d like to have it be that way for Mars. I think there is, um, like I say I’m not too worried about safety on the way there from radiation, I think that’s basically is {Gets cut off by question}