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Elon Musk has devoted hundreds of hours and millions of dollars to his obsession with colonizing Mars. The New York Times reported the Tesla CEO has also volunteered his own sperm to help seed the colony.
However, Musk took to X, formerly Twitter, to refute those claims on Thursday. He wrote, in response to another poster who screenshotted the article, “I have not fwiw ‘volunteered my sperm.'” He followed it with a laughing emoji.
Musk—who has 12 children on Earth—is all in on a plan to colonize Mars within this generation, the Times wrote, before Musk later denied it. Although, his previous comments highlighted his interest in furthering life outside Earth.
In April, he told SpaceX employees that in only 20 years, 1 million people will live in a Martian city. No human has set foot on Mars as of 2024, though various rovers and other robotic expeditions have visited the planet.
A NASA official said in May that the agency didn’t expect to...