If man are capable of traveling in space why dont we make a colony in the moon to spread our spread humanity?

If man had the high tech to travel to the moon why not create a colony to save human kind i mean it almost like watching movies of the future but not living in them in reality. So why do we have to live only in one place where the universe is for all to travel and to live we can spread our humanity in the universe and keep expanding our race and future of earth man kind. So i ask u even though we might not be pretty high tech why dont we travel the universe?

well the moon has no air to breathe, it is greater than 100C in the day and less than -100C at night, and I'm not sure but I don't' think its soil is capable of supporting plant life. Oh and there is no water either.

I Think That The Reason Why NASA Has Not Made a Colony Because They Are In A Race To Against The Other Space Stations In Other Country's To Get To Other Planets, Such As Mars. Since Most Other Space Stations Has Been To The Moon, My Opinion Is That The Moon Is Old News To Them.

According to N.A.S.A. they plan on building a moon base up there by 2020 but i would be surprised if some other country decided to announce that they planned to send a manned mission up there before 2020, i figure around 2050 or 2070 there will be private colonies up there as well, but then again i have been accused of being an optimist.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/exploration/mmb/lunar_architecture.html

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/exploration/news/presskits/living_on_the_moon.html

too expensive, dangerous, and people who could live there would all be scientists...

Building a colony on the moon would require much more money then anyone on earth could ever afford.

Traveling the universe is not feasible. It is much too big, and no human would survive a trip to any planet besides Mars. When we figure out to travel at light speed, then we can do some traveling.

The reason is because there are only two countries in the world with significant space experience, Russia and the United States and neither country is spending very much money on space exploration at the present time.

Space exploration is a "national pride" type endeavor and less of a valuable scientific one, that is why there were huge gains in the space programs of both the US and Russia during the Cold War, it was yet another way to bolster national pride and demonstrate that the countries were capable of high technological feats.

Presently Russia is in a state of reorganization, however with their expanding GDP and maintaining of space facilities for tourism, they will soon have the know-how and money to go to space on their own again if they chose. The Soyuz platform has been highly reliable for the last 42 years, when the US was not sending shuttles to the international space station, it was the ancient (by space tech terms) Soyuz which kept the ISS astronauts and cosmonauts resupplied.

China is another country that has space aspirations, this is because they are a developing world power and would like to demonstrate their "arrival" on the world stage by going to space. China was the 3rd country in the world, behind Russia and the US to put a man into space in 2003. They have all of the money (courtesy of a massive trade surplus with the US) and all the reason to put a base on the moon before either Russia or the US. China has plans, albeit unfunded to build a space station, go to the moon and possibly to Mars.

The EU is the only other major space player (ESA), but they are more interested in science and riding on US flights while developing commercial technology and working with the Russian Space Agency on the future.

So look at it as a crime who has the:
Means - (US, Russia, China, India, EU, Japan)
Know How - (US, Russia)
Desire - (China, India)

Until those 3 lists really line up, or moreso, until one country has all 3 of those things and REALLY wants a moon base for national pride or defensive posturing (also a reason China wants their own GPS system and satellite communication system independent of any western system) then a moon base will not happen, nor a manned trip to Mars.

Lockheed Martin is however working on a larger Apollo based design that will have the capability of going to the moon and Mars as the next gen US space vehicle, it is just unclear if there is the political motivation from either of the two countries who have the experience to go to Mars or the moon to do it.

We can travel to the moon and back, but no one can live on the moon. There's almost no air, no water, nothing can grown there.

To make a "colony" would take a huge investment (you'd have to enclose a big area, fill it with air, bring water, and figure out some way of growing food). All we've been able to do is send a few people up -- without a means of taking and setting up a huge enclosure, and getting enough air to it.

"Travel the universe"? You clearly have no idea of the distances involved. It would take decades just to go to another sun, let alone a distant sun (hundreds of years, at least).

It would take tens of millions of years to go to another, close-by galaxy. The distant ones are much, much further away.

In science fiction, they simply ignore all the practical problems, for the sake of having a story -- they imagine modes of transportation that allow travel among stars, but there really is no such things as, for instance, "warp drive."

Thus far, we know of only one place that can sustain life, and that's the ball we're on now.

Current plans are to build moonbases as a launching point to explore Mars.

Other than Mars, which will allow man to explore the planet while wearing spacesuits, no other planet in our Solar System is hospitable.

There may possibly moons of Jupiter or Saturn that could be explored.

Although the same elements that we find here in our Solar System exist throughout the Universe, the conditions that allow for life are not easy to find.

One cannot hop aboard a spaceship and go around the galaxy or Universe in hopes of colonizing every star that you see. The proper conditions must first exist to support life forms. So far, no earth-like planet has been found.

The second problem lies with distance. The space between stars is immense. The Voyager probes launched 30 years ago are just now reaching the edge of our Solar System.

Until new and fantastic propulsion systems are invented, interstellar travel will not happen.

Politics and economics. The people in charge found that space exploration just wasn't giving them the returns they needed, and decided to divert those funds to other projects (like wars in the Middle East). Hopefully, with all sorts of new technology, this will soon cease to be true, but we'll have to wait and see what happens.