I doubt they will age well. Plants are super-destructive to most structures. Neat that they are going for it, though.

Well, Santorum's a bit touched in the head. What do you expect? At least this is funny.

It's because of the lower gravity!

Nice to read someone who isn't just a weird crackpot like me pointing this stuff out.

Not every single thing that happens to people physiologically has to be for an evolutionary "reason"... As long as it doesn't make people significantly more likely to die before reproducing, it could easily just be random mutational junk.

"Live through something like that with all the stress and horror and then tell me how rationally you will be able to make decisions. "

It depends.

I liked John Carter. It was sort of in the same room with the books, and it was very pretty. Honestly, the books weren't exactly High Art, either.

I still wish the characters weren't all imbeciles.

Not bad, but filled with lots of nonsensical stuff.

Weird choices. No Signs ? As someone else wrote: no Congo? I could go on and on, but I am lazy.

Indeed. It's just a matter of time.

Holy crap, there were 1225 episodes of that show!?

There are a lot of these sorts of proposals, and there have been for at least 40 years. They vary widely in feasibility, but they always make the same mistake of practicality - they are only cheaper than rockets if they either last forever, or we suddenly increase our space-launch activity by a couple orders of…

Yeah, I get that it would raise prices and effort. However, with higher prices and effort, the seller would probably still make some money from the product. By just dropping the product, they make zero money on it.

"So, everyone you know has to look at their hands while typing?"

Wacky. All you need is a respirator, and maybe an on-site shower...

"offers bribes to suppress evidence that soft drinks harm kids' teeth"

"We will stop judging the backward, incest having, backhills, redneck, ignorant, jackass racist assholes when they stop being such. I mean damn."

"Why is everyone on Mars British?"