"Stunt" is the right word. If humans are sent to Mars, the most vivid lesson will be not to send humans to Mars. The most valuable lesson is that life without

"Stunt" is the right word. If humans are sent to Mars, the most vivid lesson will be not to send humans to Mars. The most valuable lesson is that life without the ecosystem it evolved to inhabit is unsustainable in some pretty horrifying ways, and humans need to take better care of their ecosystem. There is already an indictment written in the Earth itself: That time we exploded nuclear bombs in the atmosphere. That time we put lead in gasoline. Those deadly mistakes left permanent evidence of stupidity and arrogance. That said, if Elon can take a thousand libertarian techbros to a different planet, it will likely end up as an unintended monument to What Not to Do that will last for millennia. I'd give him the Nobel for that.