Are you trying for sarcasm? If so, well done good man!

My first thought exactly. Kim Stanley Robinsons trilogy could be the hard SF soap opera I've always dreamt about. Mars might get a little tedious to look at, but the landscape changes a lot through the three books. Unfortunately the premise is too realistic and probably too intelligent for most networks. Oh and no…

I've really tried to like the Vorkosigan saga. But I just cannot get past Cordelia's Honor. It's so cheesy and quite frankly somewhat infantile. But people I trust and admire insist I will end up hooked. I have a hard time seeing it though. What was your trick?

I hear you brother/sister. And what a poetic - if a little sad - reply. Rooting for life expectancy extension!

China and India are actually in the forefront when it comes to harvesting energy from Thorium. China is building the LFTR based on an old abandoned US design and India is combining Thorium with modern Uranium-technology. Both countries are also developing electric car infrastructure and increasing their use of…

It would have to be a very elaborate hoax. Scepticism is great - but it can be irrational.

What about the German word "glücklich"? (It is also found in scandinavian languages.) It is normally translated with the word happy - or lucky. But it is a combination of both those words and a sense of fulfillment.

Why is this on Io9 again? Is it because it signals the end of modern civilization and society as we know it - throwing us into apocalyptic turmoil, populated by artificially assed moronic women?

And please for the love of god stop writing "gurl". It looks like hurl for a reason.

No. Just. No.

I sincerely hope this will be on the list. From Mars to Sirius is a masterpiece of modern death metal/earth metal.

What they are hoping to find isn't gold and platinum per se. It is metals in the platinum group. [en.wikipedia.org]

They are talking about precious metals - eg. in the platinum group - like palladium and iridium - which are used in the manufacture of modern tech. Do you really think they would mine asteroids to get geeks some jewelry? That might be a infinitely small aspect of this venture, but the main reason is that we are…

You don't know very much about the scarcity of our natural resources do you? Who said anything about gold? We are talking about metals that are extremely rare on earth, used in the manufacture of everything from photo voltaics to flatscreens - metals which are abundant in space.

Fair enough. Let this be a warning then! :)

Really? The dead animals argument? Everything else you wrote instantly turned to gibberish.

I refuse to read anything by KJA. His writing is atrocious and his plot devices are the stuff of twelve year olds. The second book of his "Suns" series was the first book I ever threw in the garbage.

It really pulls it together and creates that special rural ambience.

Horrible? You are a horrible person for even suggesting that! I thought it was brilliant and very funny.

You might want to keep that "fascination" quiet around your co-workers...