



It sounds like something out of science fiction - or the sort of crazed plot a comic-book supervillain would attempt.



But Elon Musk, the billionaire businessman behind Tesla and PayPal has suggested, in all seriousness, that we should fire hydrogen bombs at Mars.



Musk - a space pioneer behind the SpaceX rockets which are being tested as a delivery system for the International Space Station - suggested the idea as a way to ‘warm up the planet’.



Musk, who has said he would like to die on Mars, said that we would need to warm up the planet before we lived there, in an interview with Stephen Colbert.



Musk suggested that the ‘slow way’ would be to initiate global warming on the planet, but said, ‘The fast way is to drop thermonuclear weapons over the poles.’



He suggested that his own SpaceX rockets would be an ideal way to deliver the thermonuclear weapons over the poles.





























