Just a couple hundred years ago, Settlers who risked their lives and spent several months on cutting edge technology (aka wooden sail
boats) to find “new” land would like to have a word.
It's also a bit poetic in that it took 30-60 days to sail from Europe to the New World. When Mars is aligned with Earth, the travel time will be similar. For example, New Horizons was able to reach Mars in 39 days.
Am I missing something? New Horizons didn’t go to Mars, right?
According to this, it also crossed the orbit of mars 78 days after launch, and at that point, it was closer to earth than mars:
