--- --- # Why You Still Can't Move to Mars by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 9, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 9, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Sorry billionaires. We’re not moving to Mars.**](http://fusion.net/story/209348/no-life-on-mars/) By Manu Saadia in Fusion **2\.** [**For decades, the government steered millions away from whole milk. Was that wrong?**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/06/for-decades-the-government-steered-millions-away-from-whole-milk-was-that-wrong/) By Peter Whoriskey in the Washington Post **3\.** [**Our brains are “outsourcing” memories to our devices.**](http://www.bbc.com/news/education-34454264) By Sean Coughlan at BBC News **4\.** [**Why do millions of Americans spend years stuck working for minimum wage?**](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/its-getting-harder-to-move-beyond-a-minimum-wage-job/) By Ben Casselman in FiveThirtyEight **5\.** [**Is peer pressure the missing ingredient for making MOOCs work?**](https://www.edsurge.com/news/2015-10-05-peer-pressure-will-help-you-finish-that-mooc) By Amy Ahearn at EdSurge  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Why You Still Can't Move to Mars ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4067859/mars-not-moving/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4067859/mars-not-moving/"},"headline":"Why You Still Can't Move to Mars","datePublished":"2015-10-09T16:01:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:01:18.735Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4067859/mars-not-moving/","keywords":["Innovation","Mars","iPhone","Minimum Wage","Milk"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4067859/mars-not-moving/","name":"Why You Still Can't Move to Mars"}}]}] ```