A voice of sweet reason on Mars! https://idlewords.com/2023/1/why_not_mars.htm The goal of this essay is to persuade you that we shouldn’t send human beings to Mars, at least not anytime soon. Landing on Mars with existing technology would be a destructive, wasteful stunt whose only legacy would be to ruin the greatest natural history experiment in the Solar System Reposts sent in good faith for better outcomes moving forward.