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Anyone know if this is to be

EmmaZahn — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 23:32:01 +0000

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Anyone know if this is to be anything like the Golgafrincham ark?

Golgafrincham is a red semi-desert planet that is home of the Great Circling Poets of Arium and a species of particularly inspiring lichen. Its people decided it was time to rid themselves of an entire useless third of their population, and so the descendants of the Circling Poets concocted a story that their planet would shortly be destroyed in a great catastrophe. (It was apparently under threat from a "mutant star goat"). The useless third of the population (consisting of hairdressers, tired TV producers*, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, management consultants, telephone sanitisers and the like) were packed into the B-Ark, one of three purported giant Ark spaceships, and told that everyone else would follow shortly in the other two. The other two thirds of the population, of course, did not follow and "led full, rich and happy lives until they were all suddenly wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone".

In the late 19th century,

MrSmith1 — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 21:38:48 +0000

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In the late 19th century, there were a number of experimental Utopias founded. This sounds like a 21st century variation on that urge.

Sounds like the plot of Out

Donal — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 18:01:43 +0000

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Sounds like the plot of Out of the Silent Planet.

All reports say that Mars

Orion — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 10:51:58 +0000

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All reports say that Mars once looked like earth. That means it had earth like beings - who I'm sure contributed to it looking like it does now.

How to Serve Man ...

Donal — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 01:05:38 +0000

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How to Serve Man ...

HELL, why should we go to

Richard Day — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 19:41:01 +0000

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HELL, why should we go to Mars when we are looking at the landscape of Mars in more and more places here on the Earth? hahahahah

Just a little more fracking and a little more ocean drilling; we can make this place Mars.

I took a trip to the CNN

Orion — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 14:25:05 +0000

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I took a trip to the CNN homepage and saw that people working for CNN took "More than 100,000 want to go to Mars and not return, project says" and reworded it on their main site as "100,000 apply to die on Mars." That's a pretty good example of how the media really subscribes to "If it bleeds, it leads."