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Tessa sees it as a mission, one of dozens that involve the company colonizing planets and stripping their resources, justifying that plunder as necessary to benefit mankind.

Until now, researchers have been unable to assign an R0 value to bacteria that normally colonize the gut, since they often live in the body without triggering illness.

Species with these traits were thought to hold a clear advantage in colonizing new and isolated environments.

Published in Molecular Biology and Evolution, the research marks the first time scientists have observed an animal species reducing its genome by almost 50% during the process of colonizing oceanic islands.

Musk’s eventual goal for Starship is to help humanity colonize Mars, a longstanding dream he’s held for decades.