I’m just sad for the US now. Hope you guys will get better times soon.

haha, amazing. Haven’t thought of that before, it’s quite fitting.

No, not really. Mars has a very weak magnetosphere, so you need shielding against radiation. Also there is no atmosphere and any atmosphere we put on mars will quickly (in a geological timescale) get blown away by the charged solar winds because there is no magnetic field. So it’s an immense task, and probably a few hundred years out before we have the technology.