[imglorp]

What's really encouraging is that Google is investing $1B in them. Musk has the tech, the team, and the track record, and now the backing. It's entirely possible he can get a Mars colony bootstrapped, if that's really the plan here.

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/google-spacex-investment

[grondilu]

According to the article this money was more intended for the deployment of communication satellites.

$1B seems short for a mars colony anyway.

[taylored]

The communication satellites are meant to become a revenue source to find the Mars mission