Why not the moon after that? I am sure there are good reasons nonetheless the moon seems more feasible
There’s no real point to colonizing the moon or Mars, when we have so much unused space on planet Earth. We’ve got an entire empty continent on Earth that is much more hospitable than the Moon or Mars, and would cost astronomically less to colonize than either of those places. We’d also eliminate the two biggest hurdles to colonization (lack of water & oxygen), and any resources we harvest there would cost basically nothing to ship back to “civilization” compared to shipping from another planet.
So, until I see Antarctica being colonized, I have no interest in any of my money being spent on these fool’s errands.