> If mega wealthy man boys like Musk want to waste money in boys own adventure science fiction instead of making real change here in earth well that’s their decision.

The problem is that the space boys aren't bankrolling this Mars delusion personally. They're counting on incredibly lucratice US federal and later international governmental contracts. Basically, whether we make it to Mars or not, there's going to be a lot of money going to Musk et al during the process and I don't think that's by accident.