Those poor megacorporations.

It's Borders, B&N and Chapters that killed most of the indies, though. Amazon came along after the damage was done.

I wish someone would just go ahead and do it. We'll never satisfy the people who want to keep Mars a barren cathedral in the ever reductive search for life, and there are effectively infinite exoplanets out there where they can do that.

I wish someone would just go ahead and do it. We'll never satisfy the people who want to keep Mars a barren cathedral in the ever reductive search for life, and there are effectively infinite exoplanets out there where they can do that.

Looks more like the Log Ness Monster.

Everything will cost a lot more when you have to fly it in by float plane.

I'd imagine it's mostly the sparsely populated bit. I doubt it's funded less on a per capita basis than other regions, and probably a lot more.

Like I said; Albertan politicians.

You'd want sand to pile up next too and above your settlement. Unlike Antartica, Mars has a very thin atmosphere and your settlement is going to need a lot of constriction to keep it's pressurized buildings from going boom.

That's pretty much true of anywhere, though. Alberta politicians don't give a damn about what might happen in BC (and vice versa).

It's got a mohawk, doesn't it?

It's too big for airbags.

I propose a crossover.

Let the homeless grow a vegetable garden? Why not cake?

Free to starve, in other words.

Wait, I'm still allowed to hate the Kardasians, right?

What you're describing just isn't in line with mainstream libertarian thought. As I pointed out, both CATO and Reason are full bore in support of Citizens United and unlimited corporate personhood.

You kill me. A self-sustaining human community? Bwa-ha-ha.

That's exactly what a sentient robot would say on the internet.

That's exactly what the corporate personhood debate is about. If you think that corporations should have the same rights as the people who own them, then you ipso facto support the concept of corporate personhood.