Ugh. I hate this political framing. Forget about the president. Ultimately, why I find the substance of this argument compelling is because the masses, even on

Ugh. I hate this political framing. Forget about the president. Ultimately, why I find the substance of this argument compelling is because the masses, even on this website, very greatly underestimate the engineering challenges involved in colonizing another planet. This is a problem so far beyond our current capabilities that we can't even project a timeline on when such a thing might be possible. It's also very possible it may never be practical to achieve. For these reasons, it's foolish to propagate the idea that colonizing another planet is a realistic solution for any problems we're facing on this planet. With all that stated, I still think it's worthwhile to try for a variety of reasons; we are natural explorers, we are curious, there are huge boons to research and technology as a side effect of this work and as far as Trump goes this is one of the least worthwhile aspects of his presidency to complain about.