Entrepreneur and inventor Elon Musk is developing a real life ‘Stargate.’ A Stargate, made famous by the science fiction feature film and long-running TV series, would allow people and objects to travel through a wormhole to different planets. The circular ring dematerializes matter when entering, travel through the wormhole, and re-materializes when exiting the other side.
The plan is to build two Stargates, the first stays on Earth and the second will accompany the first man mission to Mars. Once on Mars, traveling between Earth and the red planet will take seconds and without expensive spaceships. This would allow for almost instant transportation of supplies and other people to Mars to create a colony very quickly.
Musk’s Stargate program is being developed outside of Los Angeles near the Hyperloop facility, thus allowing the two programs to share resources. Both projects are extremely costly with the Stargate program estimated to reach six trillion dollars to develop and several more to maintain.
Musk told TechCrunch, “The Hyperloop and Stargate run on similar principles. One uses pneumatic tubes and the other a wormhole through space.
“It won’t be created overnight, but I’m confident the Stargate will be operational during my lifetime. I vow to be the first person to step through a wormhole and come out the other side alive. It’s just the matter of money, time, engineers, and will power.”
The Stargate will have a dialing device that works like a rotary phone to call up what Stargate you want to travel too. There will initially only be one number bout countless more could form over the next several hundred years to planets far, far away.
The first phase to establish a prototype link between Earth and the Moon is scheduled to be tested by 2035. The International Space Station has expressed interest in a potential Stargate location if the sustainable wormhole works as planned.