Many rag on Purdue because they aren't good at extracurricular activities (football is one of those), but in case you don't pay attention to the "student" portion of "student-athlete",  the school owns at engineering and general scientific research. Buzz Aldrin chimes in, lauding efforts by the university to devise a plan for colonisation on Mars. I'm worried about the inevitable and current privatisation of space exploration, like leading to the deaths of random school teachers who win a contest to be the first to Pluto, but Purdue students have developed a strong proposal for something that will happen within the next 30 years: people on the Red Planet. There needs to be an academic version of "B1G! B1G! B1G!".

http://www.jconline.com/story/news/college/2015/04/23/buzz-aldrin-impressed-purdues-plan-mars/26259365/?utm_campaign=%5B%22%5B%27buffer%27%5D%22%5D&utm_content=%5B%22%5B%27bufferab2fe%27%5D%22%5D&utm_source=%5B%22%5B%27twitter.com%27%5D%22%5D&utm_medium=%5B%22%5B%27social%27%5D%22%5D