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The Moon will always have more colonists than Mars. Location location location. Already nearly a dozen people have been to the Moon. Mars score : zero. Distance to Mars is quite debilitating compared to moon, no trips home in an emergency. Even operating robots incurs 15minutes--1hour of time lag, compared to 3seconds for the moon.
Mars is actually not much more earthlike than the moon. Mars 1/3 Earth gravity instead of moon 1/6. Mars 1/100 Earth air pressure instead of moon 1/10000 Earth air pressure. The only edge Mars can have is if airbursting nukes over Mars south pole vaporizes enough dry ice to raise the martian air pressure to 1/10 of earth, then Mars could be terraformed, if objections of purists could be overcome.
Mars is actually not much more earthlike than the moon. Mars 1/3 Earth gravity instead of moon 1/6. Mars 1/100 Earth air pressure instead of moon 1/10000 Earth air pressure. The only edge Mars can have is if airbursting nukes over Mars south pole vaporizes enough dry ice to raise the martian air pressure to 1/10 of earth, then Mars could be terraformed, if objections of purists could be overcome.