I reacted to "colonisation makes absolutely zero sense" which is also a stretch. I agree that a Moon colony makes sense, but I think both will happen. What we

I reacted to "colonisation makes absolutely zero sense" which is also a stretch. I agree that a Moon colony makes sense, but I think both will happen. What we must see is that our future will take parallel evolutionary paths and that will involve colonisation of planets too, whatever that means. Why not have a permanent settlement on Mars? We have people living in the harshest environments already. It will probably be a good exercise to learn our limits. Maybe we can't have healthy, viable offsprings on Mars and we will settle with cloud cities on Venus. It's probably not the best idea to pick a winning scenario, let's try everything till we can.