Great, let's go. What are we waiting for ? Forgive my impudent, probably arrogant, impatience... but can't we strap some house building robots and automated minesite equipment to a big rocket and call it a day!<p>We're used to rapid changes in technological advancement now, Spirit and Opportunity exceeded expectations. You could find some antsy, criminals/men who'd prefer to build a mars base than wait for unemployment cheques, deport them.<p>The meaning is clear, more land, more resources, an achievement for the history books, technological growth, human flourishing. Our first toe hold in the great cliff face of the milky way galaxy.<p>Leave the earth management and babysitting work to the government, there's more freedom, love, life and meaning in conquering new worlds as a matter of course, in the human condition.<p>Why wait!