Will we someday return to the Moon, go to Mars, and colonize them and the other planets?

True progress requires sacrifices, burning fossil fuels for example to provide power. I hope they see the error of their ways and realize that saving humanity is more important than saving the squirl monkey.

If we have to resolve every problem on earth first then we will never advance into space. No problem can be solved 100%.

its likely that we will, its only a question of when... as soon as it becomes economically profitable to do so, we will. For example if some pharmaceutical company discovers its cheaper to make Viagra in low gravity, we'll have a city up there in a month. If engineers discover that foamed aluminum produced on the moon can be as strong as steel and corrosion resistant. we'll start shipping up hundreds of colonists. If low gravity / high oxygen and some newly discovered medication make it possible to extend human lifespans, the entire population of florida will retire to the moon in a week or so. Its got nothing to do with Left or Right... its all about the money

Yeah, we'll eventually colonize space. Its in our nature to explore... We're just building up the resources and technology to do it effectively first.

Politics and money play a HUGE role in this... the problem is... that colonization is just NOT profitable... Its a HUGE drain on resources that could be "better spent" elsewhere... like invading countries and making weapons... *spit*.

Anyway... we will eventually HAVE to spread to the outer solar system, and then we'll HAVE to spread to other solar systems... or we'll die. It's as simple as that...

If we stay on Earth, eventually an asteroid... or a comet or something Will hit us... and will destroy our civilization... Also in the FAR FAR future (like 4 billion years) if humanity is still around and STILL hasn't gotten off Earth (it'll be pretty depleted of pretty much everything by then...) then our sun will grow into a red giant and kill us all anyway...

Besides... if we don't keep expanding and exploring... we'll stagnate and die... Exploration and discovery is part of being human... we can't stop doing it! Its our obsession...

Or... at least... i thought it was.

I always have a saying for the left-wing nuts who don't believe in technology or things like that. "You can never halt the advancement of technology, only slow it for a moment."
Another moon landing has been scheduled, during which we will begin construction on NASA's first moon base. From there, about a decade later, we will be sending the first manned mission to Mars. The sci-fi future may be centuries away, but our solar system is right here, waiting to be colonized.

Scientists are still working on a plan to bring people to mars let alone colonize there.

Too much sci-fi tv there captain picard.

Your assumption is that all planets are just like Earth and all we need to do is hop onto a rocket and set up a chair and umbrella.

This is not about Left or Right wing politics. This is about reality. There is no other planet in our Solar System which will support human life.

An astronaut with a mission to perform by landing on Mars is a far far cry from citizens boarding a space bus and setting up camp.

Research what the other planets in our Solar System are like.

Manned missions to Mars will be short-term. 3 months or less. Mars lacks: the atmosphere to breathe or to protect from the constant barrage of micrometeorite impacts; the gravity to maintain the bone structure and muscle which our Earth-evolved skelatal design requires; the iron core to protect against deadly radiation; a moon of sufficient mass to stabilize the axial rotation; surface pressures to allow for liquid water; and 100mph wind speeds that can create planet-wide dust storms.

Every human would love to explore and colonize every planet in space. But this is not some political or environmental conspiracy. It is simple realistic science. Anyone who says otherwise speaks from the mind of uneducated ignorance. Whatever their political or environmental positions.

First of all jupiter will be impossible to colonize. because it is a gas planet.

And we have to colonize other planets. look at the way we are humanity will eventually destroy itself nd the sad part is we know it.But if we colonize around the universe nd become a type 3 civilization (which is like star wars with a galactic empire) we will most likely not destroy all of humanity as we know it because we will be more spread out. im 13 years old nd i know all of this