The Surprising Ways Mars is Hostile to Life

Everyone's always trying to denigrate 'going to' Mars -pointing out how many problems there are for us to live there- but what difference does it make? It's almost like off-handedly mocking Elon Musk's SpaceX vision that he isn't asking anybody else to pay for or make happen.
It's hard to know now how history will view him: like the Wright Brothers, or maybe even more noteworthy? One day/SOME day we WILL eventually HAVE to set up productive outposts on the moon and Mars (as well as other moons farther out, too) and whether these things happen sooner or later isn't the point: they WILL have to happen eventually. And that's not for us to live on necessarily, but if we are ever going to ...continue an ambitious space exploration (BEYOND Earth's atmosphere) we will need those places to start taking shape.
Good for Elon & Co. for making it happen, whether early or not.
It might be 3 or 4 hundred years from now/long after we have all died that it is 'normal' for us to go out into the Solar System regularly, working on other planets, mining asteroids, venturing beyond or into the Oort cloud... but it will happen, just as virtually every aspect of our reality now was all but inconceivable 3 or 4 hundred years ago.
So... keep up the special work educational YouTubers
-but ALSO, and most DEFINITELY,
Elon Musk and his ground breaking work for the future.