> First there is a whole spectrum of people interested on adventure, breaking frontiers, understanding science from outside the conditions on Earth That's also

> First there is a whole spectrum of people interested on adventure, breaking frontiers, understanding science from outside the conditions on Earth That's also not what colonizing is about. Rocket energy costs mean we'll never, ever lift more than at most a few thousand people out of earth gravity. Never. Not even with reusable rockets. 99.99% of the human population, at minimum, can never leave the earth. > The challenges and adventure of not having water, facing problems like living on Venus clouds, etc.. are exactly the main reasons to go there. Doing what no other person has done ever has lots of advantages for the individuals doing it and human society as a hole. The whole point of colonization is never coming back. It won't be about science for at least a couple generations. It'll be about babies, food and building extremely basic structures. Those babies, incidentally, will be thoroughly fucked compared with babies on earth : They'll be locked in a small structure that they can never leave. And of course the project is dependent on them having at least 5-6 babies per couple, preferably more. They can never go to earth, ever. Hell, they can't ever so much as talk to anyone outside of their society that will be tens of people for a generation (because of the delay). > For example when the first vehicles were sent to the moon we were able to discover that most rocks or sand were not affected by erosion or air pressure so they had properties not seen on Earth. We knew those properties long before humans ever set foot on the moon.