I would seriously prefer to see spaceship money be spent instead on medical research and better schools in inner cities etc.... it's our taxpayer money..... billion dollar space programs seem a misspending of money, given other urgent choices imho Eg for the price of a space program, instead you could improve hundreds of schools and help thousands of students etc
Like, when? When it is - the time, to do something like this ? To do something beyond our orbit ? We can keep improving the schools and infrastructure & help the homeless and fight pandemics, inner/outer enemies and terrorists - forever. A never ending cycle. , But, when, it is the time to establish new colonies elsewhere ? Those ,,urgent" problems always were there & always will be, while conquering new lands, one day, sadly, might be just - too late.
Yeah good idea, lets build a homeless shelter on the moon or mars and send the homeless to live there.