RAMA wrote:

What's new is that this isn't some back page idea and artist's rendering, it has a motivated person with money behind it, and if this particular motivated person doesn't do it, others will...eventually. The technology will be there.
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"Someone will do it eventually" isn't news either. Musk has been making public statements about his Mars idea for several years now and it has made headlines every single time.
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As for the quote, he follows up on his quote on twitter and I have seen it repeated on other media pages on my phone
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So a twitter comment gets reposted by other twitter users and that makes it news?
Are you powers of critical thinking really that degraded?