Astrophysicist Neil Tyson to Elon Musk: I am sceptical that there will be a crowd of people who will go to Mars and want to stay there

Tyson is convinced that the plan to create a civilization on Mars is completely absurd. His reasoning is simple: Mars is totally inhospitable to people and other forms of earthly life. In his opinion, this means that nobody will want to live there - people generally do not like to live in places that are so difficult to live in. He gives the example of Antarctica, which is warmer than any other place in Mars, and there are no queues of people who want to live there.

Tyson says that we will not see cities flowering on Mars for the same reason. In his opinion, people will visit the Red Planet only for short visits, but they will not stay there for long.

People with "deeply imaginary premises"

The red planet has a thin atmosphere and does not have a global magnetic field. As a result, lethal cosmic radiation and UV radiation flow down the surface of Mars, transforming the soil into a "toxic cocktail" of chemicals and causing the temperature to drop to minus 62 degrees Celsius.
To survive in these deadly conditions, people would need "all the infrastructure that mimics the Earth," Tyson says. And this is almost impossible to create on a global scale.
Tyson called for a "rational assessment" of our ability to settle in Mars and a critical approach to people's predictions based on "deep imaginary premises.

Who, in your opinion, is right - Elon Musk, who is working with SpaceX on his first manned flight to the Red Planet, or Neil Tyson, who is sceptical about these plans?