No, our IQs and innovation have declined so much that the dream is beyond our reach now. We don't have to go to mars though to get an "alien invasion" though, already can witness one all over the West.
Average IQ might not matter that much when space travel is the realm of unusually high & autistic intelligence anyway. I could see a kind of dual caste forming in the west as the elite and intelligent get more insulated from the general hellhole population.
It's a long shot, but maybe enough of them could get to mars to be the seed of a new society - and probably eventually a new human subspecies since it could be a long time before earthlings can make contact again.
Another possibility is that the west's intelligent citizens will bail to somewhere like Russia, get into government etc, and then focus on escaping to mars before that nation is eaten by wokeism too.
No, our IQs and innovation have declined so much that the dream is beyond our reach now. We don't have to go to mars though to get an "alien invasion" though, already can witness one all over the West.
Average IQ might not matter that much when space travel is the realm of unusually high & autistic intelligence anyway. I could see a kind of dual caste forming in the west as the elite and intelligent get more insulated from the general hellhole population.
It's a long shot, but maybe enough of them could get to mars to be the seed of a new society - and probably eventually a new human subspecies since it could be a long time before earthlings can make contact again.
Another possibility is that the west's intelligent citizens will bail to somewhere like Russia, get into government etc, and then focus on escaping to mars before that nation is eaten by wokeism too.