Having a dream is not the same as beeing an idiot. For a Mars mission to have any change you need to improve on rocket technology, you need a strong space indus

Having a dream is not the same as beeing an idiot. For a Mars mission to have any change you need to improve on rocket technology, you need a strong space industry. You can not put all your money into one mission and crash into mars. Its a multiyear effort of building a sustainable the needed infrastucture and technology. Because of this approche Elon is different from others and its why he actually have a change of success.