Completely agree. I'd like to add: people talk about colonizing Mars as a future event that will take place. I assert that we are currently in the early stages

Completely agree. I'd like to add: people talk about colonizing Mars as a future event that will take place. I assert that we are currently in the early stages of colonizing Mars. We have [had?] multiple rovers driving around, and multiple science labs on the surface and a global satellite network in orbit. When we first landed a probe on Mars, someone asked Ray Bradbury "So, where are the martians?", to which he replied "We are the Martians!"