Should you go to Mars? ft Bill Nye

These guys are talking alot about how to get supplies to mars once people are already there. Not sure why we wouldn't just send supplies before arrival. Regardless, it might be more feasible to create a station that orbits Mars, fitted with proper equipment and life support utilities, that we could use to further investigate the planet. That is the only scenario I can see working if we were to send people there. Obviously this is just as, if not more costly, than actually landing there, but it would most certainly be more profitable in the way of gathering info. I've always thought our tools for observing places where more important that the tools that physically take us there. I gave up on that childhood notion that I'd eventually live to see someone touch down on Mars. 

What a world. My parents, of over 60 years old, should get to witness people walk on another celestial body, while the next generation has to solve the issue of over-capitalization, democratic republic's evolving into oligopolistic oligarchies, unfounded social unrest, oppresive and unethical media forums , and the viruses of both Covid-19 and bi-partisan political toxicity.