Nye Will Not Pay $200,00 for a Barren Rock

“I’m open-minded but skeptical that anyone actually wants to live out his or her life on Mars any more than anyone wants to colonize Antarctica...Mars is an exotic place and in some ways very romantic. But it’s cold, barren and you can’t even breathe.”

--Bill NYE the Science Guy, head of The Planetary Society, discussing SpaceX's plan to settle Mars in the near future at a cost of about $200,00 per passenger, as quoted in the Huffington Post.