A couple of observations. First, it doesn't make much sense to send supply missions to either the moon or Mars unless you actually intend to send people there to use the supplies. There is a lot of lip service being paid to creating a permanent human presence on both worlds, but not much will or actual funding. The present NASA budget is the lowest it has ever been as a percentage of GDP. That isn't going to get us anywhere beyond discussion.

Now, the entire question of IF we should do it is another discussion entirely. Humans tend to explore. It is part of our nature, and in my view, among the better aspects of our nature. The idea that colonizing the moon or Mars or both will ease population pressures on Earth, however, is a fool's dream. Those worlds might provide an opportunity to allow human populations to expand, but we will never be able to lift more than a few thousand people off this planet no matter how good we get at space travel. We will still have all the same population and ecological pressures here, so we might as well start facing that fact and stop trashing the place.

This is basically an edit just to eliminate a double post. LOL

His writings are enigmatic and vague to the point that they can be interpreted to mean just about anything, and when his alleged predictions don't seem to jibe with reality, his followers simply retranslate his writings. Given that as a standard, it is little wonder that his "prophesies" seem to be so accurate. It has been said, with a high degree of accuracy, that Nostradomus basically did for B.S. what the Grand Canyon did for holes in the ground.