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I have fallen so far out of interest in anything related to Mars. It’s a big dumb red rock. Maybe it has oil that big corps can also exploit, yippie. We have so many problems here and now. Many of their solutions seem so simple, we just lack decent leaders. Mars is just pointless.
I agree. It makes much more sense to colonize the Moon first. The challenges are almost the same: A lot of radiation and an environment that is hostile to (human) life. Whatever we develop to live there will also enable us to live on Mars but it's much more convenient and cheaper to start on the Moon.
Also: When we get the ability to terraform Mars we can use that to terraform Earth too!