What a stupid article. He tries to insult people into agreeing with him, but “What are you, chicken?” is not a reason to spend up to a trillion dollars of other people’s money to do something completely useless, and sending half a dozen people to a dim, cold, irradiated wasteland whose only redeeming feature is that it’s a bitch to get to is completely useless.
Did that colonization group that went to Mars leave yet?
It would appear they’ll be there between 2022 and 2027.
Venus is cloudy, it’s 400 degrees and full of sulphuric acid.
TV cameras won’t work there.
Therefore it is not as interesting.
Because the surface of Venus is hot enough to melt lead and has more than ninety times the sea level Earth atmospheric pressure. The only planets we could concievable land on are Mars and Pluto, plus some of the larger asteroids and outer planet moons. Aside from Earth’s moon, Mars is the only orbium coprenicoid that we could practically visit and establish an exploration outpost upon with anything resembling convention propulsion technology.
Stranger
How about Mercury?, IIRC there are areas near the poles that are relatively hospitable… in the same way the Moon is hospitable, but still.
Approaching Mercury would require enduring a factor of four increase in solar radiation , a much higher incidence of charged particle radiation, and a greater delta-vee than going to Jupiter.
The most intersting, reasonably accessible places in the Solar System are the Jovian and Saturnian moons.
Stranger
We have a googlewhack!!!
A search for “orbium coprenicoid” returns only one hit.(this thread, of course)
I love this place.
Just yesterday, my almost-five-year-old child asked me if the moon were a planet. I said “No, but…,” and I tried to think of a succinct way to explain that it’s very much LIKE a planet, for many purposes (such as general questions regarding human vs. robotic exploration.)
Now I have a general term for (larger) moons, (larger) asteroids, and planets: OCs!
We still don’t have profit-making mines or factories or retirement homes on the Moon. That does not mean going there was useless. Scientific exploration is never useless.
Any planet where the atmosphere dissolves the probes is interesting, at least! 
It’s supposed to be spelled orbium copernicoid. It was used by Stranger in another thread (don’t go there unless you want to revisit the latest iteration of the Pluto wars).
Yeah, try bringing Matt Damon back from *that *one.