Elon Musk asks space-themed video game for ideas to get humans living on Mars

Elon Musk has asked a video game for help getting humans to Mars and "making life multiplanetary". He suggested that the developers of Kerbal Space Program, a game that allows people to design and fly spacecraft around a virtual solar system, might have ideas for what SpaceX is "doing wrong". Mr Musk noted that the biggest problem the company faces in its plans to colonise Mars and other planets is the vast cost of getting spacecraft to its surface. And he asked for any help that its community could give to get people there. The tweets came as part of a busy morning of tweeting for Mr Musk, in which he also made a number of jokes about dogecoin – and helped boost the cryptocurrency's price.