I am very sorry to inform you, gdodd10, that you have missed precisely nothing about John Carter. It is, in actual fact, very unappealing, and quite run-of-the-mill. They have, it seems, managed to take one of the most amazing wish-fulfillment tales of all time (trapped, doomed, our Hero wakes up as Superman on a…

Sure, but wouldn't you know it's in an inaccessible spot (darn Tnuctipun engineers!).

Naw, I've been trying that for decades, and it hasn't done a bit of good.

So if we want an ice age to occur, all we need is to trigger some volcanos and wait a few decades? Cool.

No. No there isn't. Unfortunately, there is no joke there, at all.

Something to do with a Black Freighter?

Ew, baggit, yer ownseff, serrah.

When doing satire au francais, you must wear le beret, non?

As in a pool quieu (shoot me, it was 7 a.m.!).

Quieu music joke here.

The creation of a child is not the issue, it is how you treat him afterwards. If a neanderthal clone is treated as a child, and occasionally tested for differences, then there is probably nothing wrong with that. However, if a cloned is treated as property, raised as a lab animal with no human rights, then there is…

Yep! Good book, too!

It's even been written, by David Drake. Now to get it made ...

Shoot, take it a bit further ... the majority of public transit riders are minorities. The majority of working minority individuals are women.

The moon is not, actually, "outer space." Sure, SPACE is the province of all mankind, but the moon is a planet locked in a tidal dance with the Earth and not space, at all.

The shields held, cap'n!

Been done, in fact.

What are you talking about? The relentlessly stupid gape is her trademark!

Arrrrggh!

And they brought her back because she was too annoying to bear.