there are two problems with your argument: 1) the technology we have now is inadequate for serious colonization. we are better off investing in basic science,

there are two problems with your argument: 1) the technology we have now is inadequate for serious colonization. we are better off investing in basic science, education, health care, and the economy in general. we have to create the people who will create the science first. 2) NASA is the wrong way to do colonization, it should be private enterprise, which has a much higher appetite for risk.