That could happen... You'd have to give it a real good push out. Just to make sure. You don't want to look like the Mars colony fool.

We should focus on the Musk idea first. Sending people on a one way trip doesn't sit well with me. Will probably make quite the horror movie one day though, I suppose.

seems a little bit of a waste of money, knowing how many billions it will cost and how little we will likely get out of it. Human technology is a million years away from being capable of utilizing any other planet or space exploration.

Look at technology now compared to 50 years ago- the only particularly big difference would be the internet and cell phones, both of which were techinically figured out by then anyway. 

Seems to me like there are a lot of on Earth issues presently that money could be better put to solve. I mean for gods sake people haven't even figured out yet how to efficiently use solar energy yet we're spending billions on things that just are flashy and not realistically helpful? putting a man on Mars won't result in any information that a robot can't provide for much cheaper

just saying.

Listened to him earlier this night. I think he said by 2026, which to me is almost soon enough, so i'm quite hyped. 

+The colonization plans.