> nowhere did it acknowledge just how completely inhospitable Mars will be once you finally get it there And you really legitimately think that they did not kn

> nowhere did it acknowledge just how completely inhospitable Mars will be once you finally get it there And you really legitimately think that they did not know about this piece of information from the children's book about space? They don't mention it because it is so ubiquitous and common sense that they assume everyone knows it, not because they managed to "miss the memo" about Mars. The idea is that we terraform Mars with technology to make it liveable, not that we just go there and try to build a hut from dirt and call it a day.