If I really wanted mankind to invest more money into exploring Mars, I wonder what the best approach would be. What do y'all think?
1. Make enough money to invest your own capital/start your own company. (Ex: Elon Musk) AKA Do it yourself.
2. Go into politics and get enough support to start a campaign? AKA Get the government to do it.
3. Other?
The problem I see with this is that each independent laboratory cannot be easily configured to the same initial conditions. Especially not one on Mars and one on Earth. It would take a tremendous effort to turn Mars into Earth and then use it in parallel to carry out experiments. If the two laboratories are vastly different, comparisons between the two won't have much backing.