Having Neptune, Uranus, Venus, Saturn or Jupiter in the sky would be a real gas..

Need i say more?

If they came for our hair, we'd have to mullet over for a while.

This is an interesting article, and i now have at least part of an idea for why the aliens in the novel i'm working are interested in humanity.

This reminds me of an old philip k dick novel that i came across via the stanza app on my ipod. Earth is encircled by an ancient and crumbling empire that we are at war with. In order to get enough resources to fight this war, the humans are pillaging resources from the past, and a fixit man ends up getting swept up…