Depends on your definition of "colonize". In the hundreds of thousands of people range, no we are several hundred years away (if ever). Mostly because outer sp

Depends on your definition of "colonize". In the hundreds of thousands of people range, no we are several hundred years away (if ever). Mostly because outer space sucks and there's no reason to be there, as evidenced by the inability for anyone in this thread to come up with compelling reasons to do it aside from "ah the adventure!" (from people who haven't done anything that could be described as 'adventure' here on earth, ever).