Lately, I have been thinking about the kind of people who will settle
Mars. What will these people be like?
Firstly, it will be pretty much a self-selecting group. They will
be tenacious, a bit brighter than average. But for some reason or
other, they will not do as well on Earth as on Mars. If they could do
as well as they wished on Earth, they would not want to go to Mars.
After a few centuries, I think it will be the Martians, not Earth
prpeople who dominate the Solar System, just as it is the Americans
who dominate Earth today.