Mars stinks.

I mean, it's not the worst planet in the solar system, but it's not exactly the best one either.

I mean, look, look, there's no air.

Okay, there's a little bit of air, but it's less than 1% of Earth's atmospheric pressure.

And if I had less than 1% of the, like, say, income that I have now, money that I have now.

I would say I'd basically have no money.

I think that's fair. And what air there is, it that I have now. I would say I'd basically have no money. I think that's fair.

In what air there is, it's entirely poisonous carbon dioxide. If you're a plant, that's not so

bad, but I'm assuming most of you listening today are not plants. And so atmosphere made of

entirely carbon dioxide is not the best thing for you. Speaking of poisons,

this Martian soil is coated, soaked, whatever word you want to use in perchlorates, which you

might be more familiar with as an occasional source of rocket fuel.

Literal rocket fuel on the ground.

So if you ate Martian dust, you would just get a mouthful of rocket fuel.

I mean, come on.

Mars gets only 40% of the sunlight that the Earth does.

So it's never, ever going to beat that sunny tropical day on a beach, seaside resort

kind of vibe.

You're not getting that.

It has 60% of the Earth's gravity.

So even if you could live on Mars and hang out on Mars, you're going to deal with constant low gravity and all the nasty biological issues that come along with it, things that our astronauts are experiencing in microgravity situations.

We don't even know if, say, like, a fetus's spine will grow straight in the womb without our gravity and the strength of our gravity.

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