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neither of these things will happen anytime soon
Fair enough and valid points about Mars for sure. Talk about human settlements on Mars, or on the moon even seem to me to many, many steps down the road. But, this "anytime soon" is what concerns me. 10 to 15 years falls into the "soon" category in my definition. Years come and go quickly. I remember 9/11 and the overall conclusion of "failure of imagination". Things, technology things in general, seem to be accelerating far faster than we can keep up. I'd hate to get caught napping because anytime soon won't come.
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My uninformed opinion is that quantum is real... But distant. Yes there will be quantum 'hacks' and/or exploits but they are long, long ways off.
Will humans visit mars one day? Yes. Will humans have permanent colonies on mars? Yes they will... Eventually.
But neither of these things will happen anytime soon because the engineering challenges of doing these things safely and actually bringing the astronauts back are immense. Extremely difficult on any short to medium time scale.