Oops. I accidentally downvoted you by mistake, there's no way to undo that. I mostly agree with you actually! Except we shouldn't devote all our resources to it

Oops. I accidentally downvoted you by mistake, there's no way to undo that. I mostly agree with you actually! Except we shouldn't devote all our resources to it. Actually about 1-2% of our resources would be enough. Currently we expend less than 0.1% or so of global resources to space exploration (not just Mars). A tenfold or twentyfold increase would make a really big improvement there, enough to establish a foothold and grow.