But before we can build an off-Earth colony, we need to expand our mastery of shelter-building dramatically, to accomodate for incredibly hostile conditions.
By the time off-Earth colonization is at hand, the shelters we'd be able to make here would be unbelievable, especially if we chose to focus all resources on shelter-building rather than also work on the massive undertaking that is interplanetary transport.
In the long term, yes.
But before we can build an off-Earth colony, we need to expand our mastery of shelter-building dramatically, to accomodate for incredibly hostile conditions.
By the time off-Earth colonization is at hand, the shelters we'd be able to make here would be unbelievable, especially if we chose to focus all resources on shelter-building rather than also work on the massive undertaking that is interplanetary transport.
So for anything but long term, no.