We could have landed on Mars already if we had funding. There’s no incentive for the state to fund it so Musk has to do it while still relying on government fu

We could have landed on Mars already if we had funding. There’s no incentive for the state to fund it so Musk has to do it while still relying on government funding for other SpaceX projects. If we get the National Security elites on board we’ll be there so fast it’ll make your head spin. We could have AGI 2-5 years sooner than we otherwise will (2030) if the government wasn’t run by geriatric humanities majors. These problems are mosyly downsyream from money, lots of it, and you need Manhattan project scale budgets for them. AGI and fusion also require some theoretical breakthroughs but Mars? Mars doesn’t. Making it livable is hard but just landing there just means scaling up the moon landing.