I don't know shit about science, can some smart people explain something to me?

Instead of low-T the soy boys of Mars are gonna have low-G

what’s the point of making a moon base? The only real reason to ever establish a permanent living arrangement on another planet is having the goal in mind of making the entire planet eventually liveable. Otherwise, there’s really no difference between just living in space stations vs living in bubbles on uninhabitable planets. The moon is worthless.

It's possible for moon dust to damage equipment and shelters

In mid-to-long term we should certainly do both. Moon as a (mostly automated) industrial facility and a stepladder to the Solar System colonization, and Mars as the first actual home for humanity after Earth, with possible hopes of either terraforming or genemodding our Martian descendants.

However, if forced to choose one, Mars is an obvious choice. The expenses on life support will be lower, even if only slightly so; the chance of being whacked by a rouge asteroid are lower, the chances of getting fucked over by some Earth terrorists or rogue government are lower as well. Mars might become second home for humanity, but not a space exploration foothold - even if escape velocity there is lower than on Earth, it's much higher than on the Moon.
But, last but not least, there's a nifty bit of maths summarized on the picrelated. Basically, it takes almost 50% less fuel to get to the surface of Deimos, Mars's larger moon, than to our own Moon, and with well-placed aerobraking maneuver, getting to Mars from there costs next to nothing.

So, Moon first if you want some of that asteroid belt platinum and gold and whatnot; if you want generation ships, O'Neil cylinders, Starshot laser grids. But Mars first if you want to split your eggs-humans between two baskets - one failing and one barely habitable.

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>Solar System colonization

What can you even colonize other than Mars? Venus is toxic as fuck, Mercury would melt you, the gas giants are fucking gas, and the outer planets are too cold.

First of all, colonizing doesn't necessarily mean humans living there. A swarm of drones disassembling asteroids and sending stuff to the Inner System is colonization already, by proxy, but still.
Second, upper layers of Venus atmo are as decent an environment as it gets.
Third, Titan will either be your ultimate fuel depot (if we don't get anything better than chemical rockets) or a Moon+ sized supercomputer (see Isaac Arthur's video on Colonizing Titan, but tl;dw is that Titan being a cold as fuck makes it a perfect place for both conventional and quantum computational arrays)
Forth, back to asteroids - maybe spun-up inner shell habs are not viable, but if you get fusion - you can set a small family microG farm on every 1km-wide piece of rock flying in both Inner Belt, Kuiper Belt and even Oort Cloud. The amount of power it takes to heat up a few acres of space needed to sustain a human in perfect conditions is negligible compared to what it would take to get to there in the first place.
Finally, plopping an O'Neil cylinder or another habitat type of your choice on any semi-stable orbit is as already colonization-y as it gets.
Also, Europa, Ganimede, and Enceladus would be easiest to terra?form. I'd rather say Oceanform.

Shame we won't get to see any of it

telomere repair bruh

To get as far away as possible while we nuke the brainlets back into the stone age so we may descend upon them like gods in a couple of thousand years in our chariots of fire and castles in the sky to rule over them, except maybe not screw up as bad as last time along with our QT monster girl waifus.

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Even if that hapens, probably only really rich people will be able to afford it. Guess it's time to steal Ivanka from Jared