Do you think kids on Mars will graduate from Bradbury High?
I think that would be incredibly cool legacy
"Do you think kids on Mars will graduate from Bradbury High?"
Heinlein too; "What you talkin' about, Willis?", and who would be willing to bet there won't be a Saint Podkayne School?
Mars is going to be a challenge, there's no doubt of it. It would probably be easier to colonize Antarctica. Come to think of it, it might be best to do both, and send a lot of that excess ice from Antarctica to Mars to replenish its former oceans.
Even with the oceans restored, Mars will have more arable surface area than Earth, and we'll be able to dig deeper and build higher, (lower gravity, see?)
We could end up with a higher population on Mars than on Earth. Most of them would be farmers. (Farmers in the Sky).
It will take some fixing up to do all that, but having another whole world has got to be worth something!