Elon Musk spoke about the colonization of Mars and the increase in Earth’s birth rate during his keynote address at Allen & Co’s Sun Valley conference on Saturday, but avoided talking about his attempt to withdraw from the Earth. its $ 44 billion offer to buy Twitter.
Musk’s talk to close this year’s Idaho conference that annually convenes tech, media and finance gurus became one of the most interesting entries after Tesla’s chief lawyers warned Friday that ended its offer to acquire Twitter. The billionaire accused the social media company of not providing information about bot accounts, among other things, making observers wonder if he would address these complaints in his speech scheduled for the next day.
But Musk, who is also head of the private rocket company SpaceX, refused to do so. Instead, he reflected on how he saw Mars as a “civilian life insurance” if a disaster ended the Earth, Bloomberg reported, citing the memories of several people in the closed-door speech.
Statements about Mars echoed a tweet from him earlier this year that humans could land on the planet in 2029.
Reuters, which also reported that it had spoken to attendees, wrote that Musk also expressed concern about declining birth rates in rich countries. And, Bloomberg added, it also renewed complaints about how Twitter had banned Donald Trump after former president supporters staged the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol in early January 2021.
It was not immediately clear if Musk was aware that Trump had branded him a “shit artist” and his actions with Twitter “rotten” on Saturday as he went looking for Republican political candidates in Alaska.
Trump’s insult came after Musk said last month that he was thinking of supporting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis instead of Trump as a Republican challenger to Democrats ’Joe Biden in the U.S. presidential election. 2024.
Apparently, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman moderated Musk’s talk on Saturday.
Musk could be in a long legal battle after notifying the public of his intention to withdraw from the Twitter purchase.
Twitter president Bret Taylor said the social media platform could sue Musk in a Delaware court to enforce the purchase deal they had made with the richest man in the world. The deal contained a provision that could force Musk to buy Twitter as long as he had funding, which the employer said he had in May.
Musk could also be fined $ 1 billion if he manages to drop the deal, though he tries to avoid the sanction by alleging that Twitter breached “multiple provisions” of its sale agreement.