Who is willing to live on Mars? --- I find "imagining life outside planet earth" as a useless and even dangerous utopia, engaging part of the scientific community to contribute to this endeavour is diverting resources from adressing the SDGs for intance. Where I normally fight for scientific independance and openness as well as freedom of research, here I have to admit that I would ban public money spending for such projects that clearly generate more risks than benefits for taxpayers themselves

Source author: Patrick Furrer Patrick.furrer@smartfree.ch