Indeed. Just wait until we're good at colonizing Mars. Then colonize Mars.
I tried this strategy once. In college, I picked up a cool looking electric guitar from a pawn shop and tried to learn to play it. It turns out, though, that I wasn't immediately good at it. Worse, it looked like it was going to take a ton of effort before I was playing crazy Eddie Van Halen solos and stuff.
So I decided to put the guitar in storage and wait until I was good at playing guitar before picking it back up again.
Oddly, 20 years later when I dug it out, I still wasn't any good at playing the guitar.
I tried this strategy once. In college, I picked up a cool looking electric guitar from a pawn shop and tried to learn to play it. It turns out, though, that I wasn't immediately good at it. Worse, it looked like it was going to take a ton of effort before I was playing crazy Eddie Van Halen solos and stuff.
So I decided to put the guitar in storage and wait until I was good at playing guitar before picking it back up again.
Oddly, 20 years later when I dug it out, I still wasn't any good at playing the guitar.
I'm sure it's different with space travel though.