Until we see the monkeys do a round trip to Mars and return in a healthy state, talk of a manned mission to Mars is nothing more than corporate government propaganda.

Suicide is as easy as riding a rocket into Heaven.

We have yet to establish a permanent Mars colony for this reason: Trying to colonize Mars with humans is a known suicide mission that no one is talking about.

Many biological researchers know that living on the Moon or Mars will make everyone involved sick to the point of killing them prematurely with Space diseases.

The moon is considered a relatively easy object to land humans on, everything else is much harder by orders of magnitude. It is the reason why we have not been to Mars and will likely never go there successfully with humans.

We are not going to Mars.

NASA astronauts have only managed to live continuously on the International Space Station (ISS) for a year and Biosphere 2 on Earth failed at two years of uninterrupted human habitation. Both cases required extracting the sickened people from the toxic environments. At this point it is ludicrous to talk about a permanent manned base on Mars.

I am not going to Mars unless they have a McD's dollar menu.

Until a team of monkeys have made the round trip to Mars and returned in good health, there is no manned mission to Mars.