And doing so outside the usual boring box.

We can either wait 50 years for a monstrous space mission to Mars that
will never happen except on paper, or we can get a group with the
knowhow, technology, and especially the WILL to put a mission together
and actually make it happen in our lifetimes.

And a one-way mission to colonize Mars is not as crazy as you are
making it out to be. A lot of folks would be happy to get off this rock
and start life anew on another world. The only reason it hasn't happened
yet is because no one has set up the proper space infrastructure for it.

Wow, someone had an actual plan, rather than a snooze-fest and
overly long proposal on the subject.