> The EU isn't even trying to be the first to send humans to Mars I know this is an unpopular opinion around here, but I'm very glad they aren't. It's wildly i

> The EU isn't even trying to be the first to send humans to Mars I know this is an unpopular opinion around here, but I'm very glad they aren't. It's wildly impractical (humans can't survive on Mars without a lot of external help, and unlike the closest things we have to it, Antarctica and the ISS, emergency help would be months away at best), astronomically expensive, and would serve what goal exactly? I don't want my tax euros wasted on unrealistic vanity projects. Let Musk('s children) run his dystopian colony there first and we'll see how it goes.