In an interview for a new Netflix documentary filmed months before her death, famed British primatologist Jane Goodall called for billionaire and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to be blasted into space.
“Absolutely, there are people I don’t like,” she told interviewer and TV writer Brad Falchuk, “and I would like to put them on one of Musk’s spaceships and send them all off to the planet he’s sure he’s going to discover.”
When asked if she would like Musk to be on the spacecraft alongside them, she sounded off.
“Oh, absolutely, he’d be the host,” she said. “Along with Musk, it’d be [president Donald] Trump and some of Trump’s real supporters.”
“Put them all on that spaceship and send them off,” she concluded.
“I would say I was somebody sent to this world to try to give people hope in dark times because without hope, we fall into apathy and do nothing.”
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The interview was conducted earlier this year, months before Goodall passed away at the age of 91, for Netflix’s “Famous Last Words: Dr. Jane Goodall” documentary.
Goodall’s incisive words highlight a long-simmering resentment against Musk and his former closest ally, president Donald Trump.
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