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Africa-Press – Cape verde. <\/strong><\/span>Billionaire Bill Gates has said he would rather pay for vaccines than travelling to Mars, which he does not think is a good use of money.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s actually quite expensive to go to Mars. You can buy measles vaccines and save lives for $1,000 (\u00a3814) per life saved,\u201d he told the BBC.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so [that] just kind of grounds you, as in \u2013 don\u2019t go to Mars.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fellow entrepreneur Elon Musk has said he wants to colonise Mars, while Jeff Bezos has also joined the \u201cspace race\u201d.<\/p>\n

SpaceX, the rocket company co-founded by Mr Musk in 2002, has made it an ultimate goal to send crewed flights to Mars and eventually colonise the Red Planet.<\/p>\n

Mr Bezos, the founder of Amazon, heads the aerospace company Blue Origin and made a short journey to space in 2021, while British tycoon Sir Richard Branson has also reached the edge of space on his Virgin Galactic rocket plane.<\/p>\n

Mr Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, also believes artificial intelligence will \u201cpretty dramatically\u201d transform humanity.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cIt will help us look into medical and scientific questions. It\u2019s not just robots, it\u2019s helping to read and write as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn fact, there\u2019s been more progress there than on the robotic side. Both of them will give us much higher productivity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Gates also spoke of his surprise at becoming the face of conspiracy theories during the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did not expect that,\u201d he said, referring to suggestions he profited from the virus, or started it himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the pandemic, there were tens of millions of messages that I intentionally caused it, or I\u2019m tracking people. It\u2019s true I\u2019m involved with vaccines, but I\u2019m involved with vaccines to save lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese messages sort of inverted that. I guess people are looking for the \u2018boogeyman\u2019 behind the curtain, the over-simplistic explanation. Malevolence is a lot easier to understand than biology.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Gates also spoke about how he, like many other philanthropists, met sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m certainly more careful now than back when I did that. I\u2019ll do a little more due diligence. I may make a mistake again. I\u2019m out in the world and I\u2019m not trying to be a recluse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Gates, who has spent much of his life as the richest person in the world, has given tens of billions of pounds to philanthropic causes, often targeted at global health, especially children.<\/p>\n

He now divides his time between climate change, and eradicating malnutrition and diseases such as polio and malaria.<\/p>\n

On the question of whether he is frugal in his personal life, Mr Gates said: \u201cI don\u2019t have a gigantic closet. I don\u2019t wear jewellery.<\/p>\n

When I\u2019m unwrapping a present, I don\u2019t take the wrapping and fold it up and use it again. My grandmother never threw a paper bag in her life or any string on a package. So by her standards, I\u2019m crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Gates divorced his wife, Melinda, in May 2021. When asked if he would like to find love again, he said: \u201cSure, I\u2019m not a robot.\u201d<\/p>\n

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