FuckMusk

There are so many different, and better, reasons to get rockets out into our solar system aside from trying to forcibly terraform a dead rock.

Asteroids worth trillions in precious metals, diamonds, whatever the fuck — it's out there waiting to be tapped.

Musk uses Mars as a 'weird goal' because it evokes feelings of a time when science fiction still represented 'the future that could be'. He's playing his base, nothing else. If he were actually trying to benefit humanity his focus would be the moon, then the belt.