Can man colonized other planets in our Solar system, at present or at least the very near future?
We do NOT have the technology or resources. Will and desire are moot. There is NO planet or moon in our Solar System to colonize. Name one…. Mars is certainly not able to be colonized. It has 2/5 the gravity of Earth. You cannot take an organism that evolved for 3 billion years on Earth and expect it to function on a planet with 2/5 gravity. I don’t understand why people can’t understand that. Even short term trips to the Moon and the ISS have returned to Earth with permanent bone structure deformities. Persons hear about manned space missions to Mars and suddenly think that humans are going to colonize it. There is nothing further from the truth. Astronauts will be the only humans going to Mars and those missions will be 3 months or less. Mars has no breathable atmosphere. A surface pressure which prevents the formation of liquid water. No magnetosphere to prevent deadly radiation. A thin atmosphere which allows for constant impacts of micrometeorites. And dust storms which can whip
