Space colonization (location diversification) is mankind's best chance of prolonged survival and each home for a planet or large moon should govern itself as an independent republic
Oops, non-globalist republics would be an even better idea, that fractionalization likely assisted by oceans and other natural barriers.
Socialism sucks no matter where it's tried.
Now will someone break that annoying light speed barrier, please?

I don't trust BHO. I would rather see corporations compete for Mars exploration and eventual industrialization. I'm a fan of scifi writer Ben Bova, and in his novels demonstrates what happens when govt's get involved. He makes a case that planetary colonies are better off to develope by themselves than have an Earth centered govt meddling in such affairs.

Yes. On the list of things that are likely to destroy the world AGW is near the bottom.

I read that Disney originally intended to entitle the movie "A Princess of Mars" but SYFY got the jump on them title-wise with a cheaper version.
It was first seeing the cheaper version that led to me doing a computer search whereas I stumbled upon the above information.
Later I learned Disney changed the title to "John Carter" I'm pretty sure as a result.
I agree that "John Carter of Mars" may have given the movie a better chance in theaters.
I've always enjoyed Frank Frazetta illustrations of Edgar Rice Burroughs paperbacks.

https://www.google.com/search?q=a+pri...

It was not school but the Frazetta exhilarating cover for Carson of Venus bought during a family vacation in the Smoky Mountains that turned 13-year-old or so me into an avid reader first of such silly stuff and then of all kinds of stuff.

https://www.amazon.com/Carson-Venus-F...

Analyses I've seen indicate the name was a terrible choice in the states. It did a lot better where "of Mars" was left in the title.

Anyway, I thought the movie was pretty good too, Dino.

So did my daughter, Dejah Thoris.

I used to be in the "plausible" camp. Then I did more reading, a lot more reading, and still more reading. Now I view it like religion. Specifically in how you convert out of it. It has been said the quickest way to covert a believer is to have them actually read the Bible themselves. Everyone I know personally who has taken the time to go through the CAGW holy words has come to the conclusion that it isn't a concern. Some have gone further to suggest or suspect we are worrying about the wrong thing and are going to have some hard lessons in humility coming - but not because "humans" did something. Rather it is because humans are refusing to see what is going on and getting prepared for it.

They think we are actually going in the opposite direction. What is more, is that colder is more dangerous and difficult to deal with than hotter.

I thought he was..."I 'SEE' 50's comic book Martians"...and yea...their all dead....hahahahahahahahahaaaakkk

Dye O red and he'd look like a 50s comic book Martian anyhoo.

That's funny....

Hopefully they'll take him with them.../...and leave him there!

Some I've come up with on my own are O the Great and Powerful (that Oz flick is pretty good), Oblamer, Obozo, Oblather, Ocommie and stuff without an O like Liar-In-Chief but there are times I can tell someone else has independently come up with a duplicate of one of my creations.
Think I may apply Oblabla somewhat along these lines~
"Then the Liar-In-Chief spoke his usual Oblabla on about Manmade Climate Change."

Years later Father Mars (as his humongous statue on that planet shall be named) tried to prove he was a worthy President Of Peace by pulling too many troops out of Iraq.
O's responsibility for creating the vacuum from which ISIS sprang is besides the point.
Besides, Bush occupied Iraq so whatever happens there later is all Bush's fault anyway .
O's White House help may now dust and polish that Peace Prize on the mantle with pride.

Use it only for truth and for good.
I originally used Obamao, but it got bleeped by too many websites.
There are so many distortions of the name that are possible, there should be a website.

This is beyond laughable. If, by some miracle, the government actually manages to do something constructive toward space colonization, I have no doubt that he-who-is-a-legend-in-his-own-mind will declare himself the hero who got it started. Why not? After all he got a Nobel prize for doing absolutely nothing.

You're supposed to forget that like a nice little low information sheeple, who you can bet your bippy are now saying, "Oh, isn't O the Great and Powerful so wonderful! He's gonna gift us with Mars!"

Great, $100B to invent a new flavor of Tang.

Maybe this can be what Elizabeth Warren holds up as public investments against iPhones and the BluRay. "They didn't invent this..."

He is an idiot. He killed this mission of NASA in his first term, and then left their budget in place. Lot's of wasted $, but no objective.

What an Obamanation!

I believe everything Obama promises about Mars just as I believe everything he has promised in the past. Oh, wait a minute, I didn't believe anything he promised in the past.

Most of those novels are really spliced together serial adventures for magazines so readers would buy more magazines to see what happens next. It's a reason why those "novels" are so cliffhanger action-packed.
Film serials like several of Flash Gordon were made to compel viewers to return to theaters mostly during the Depression.
I saw an episode of maybe the last of those things during the 50s as a little dino. To this day I wonder what happened to a blonde lady tied to a tree that an upright unconvincing gorilla came along to put its hands around her throat.
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Most of the scientists of my acquaintance feel that the jury is still out on AGW. There are a few, however, whose grants are federal largess and they don't want to honey to stop flowing. My position is that AGW is useful as a political tool, the reality of it is irrelevant. But to the extent that it does pose a global threat politicians are the least qualified to confront it.

My first introduction to Mars was the George Pal adaptation of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, with Gene Barry and Anne Robinson. (Universal Pictures, 1959?) I never read anything by Edgar Rice Burroughs except his Tarzan stuff, and not many of those novels, either.

Now that private enterprise (ie. Space X) is making this more than a pipe dream, the guy who has done more to damage business than any other, takes credit for going to Mars.

Here ya go~

Harrumph. That will ruin the neighborhood.