Beyond the most efficient way of sending stuff to Mars I don't think it makes sense to send humans right away. In a decade, the earliest timeframe Musk envision

Beyond the most efficient way of sending stuff to Mars I don't think it makes sense to send humans right away. In a decade, the earliest timeframe Musk envisions, robotics, AI, battery/solar technology will have likely advances to the point that it makes much more sense to send robots. Let them explore and build bases for a while and then send humans a few decades later.