However, what if they succeed? Does anyone have an idea on this? I am considering going to my local Pastor and asking him. There are two ways this can go; either the end of times happen BEFORE we go to Mars in ten years, or Revelations is non-canon. Maybe there is something in revelations or in the bible that I missed or over looked?
LOL, we can't get a colony on Mars in 10 years. We have to have a moon colony 1st to mine for resources and fuel to even be able to build the ship and fuel it. It isn't really feasible to send that amount of material into space from the earth. We would have to locate water on the moon to separate it into oxygen and hydrogen to fuel the thrusters.
Until we have a moon base and a large fabrication space station to use resources from the moon, don't expect any kind of colony ships. Besides that, it would be a total waste of resources. If we had that moon base and space station, we would be setting up for asteroid mining operations, not colonizing another planet.
Maybe, and I stress maybe after we have many space stations like orbiting mars with resources available to be dropped to a colony, it would be feasible to settle the surface. It would be 50-100 years minimum before that IMO.
To my knowledge we don't even have plans to put in a moon base at this time. Until you see full blown mining and manufacturing capability on the moon, forget about any nonsense idea of settling another planet. We have to settle space itself as well as low gravity environments to get the resources needed that will be easy to put into space.
Don't expect a government to do it. It will be private industry that will drive it. It has to be profitable to do so. Helium-3 mining would drive the moon based mining operations. H3 is needed for fusion reactors but it is only available in small amounts on earth but common on the moon. From the moon, electric rail guns could be used to launch materials into space towards a space station to recover and use the raw materials. The 0g would aid in making exotic alloys. We would also be building huge power collection stations and orbital solar arrays long before we worry about colony ships.