Should you go to Mars? ft Bill Nye

I would absolutely go to Mars, even one way. So long as I could take a couple of years to travel Earth extensively before I left, or alternatively wait until I'm around 50. I think with the presence of the internet and the rise of virtual reality, I'd still feel pretty connected to people back on Earth despite the distance. And the population on Mars would only increase as time went on, so you'd have more people to interact with at "home".

I feel pretty certain that colonization is the future for Mars... it just makes sense as an insurance policy for Earth. If evidence exists of prior life on Mars, hopefully we'll uncover it before the colony grows in population too much. But I don't think the lack of an answer to the question of prior life on Mars would stop us from colonizing the planet in the long term.