http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~mfogg/zubrin.htm

"Beyond such near-term milestones, the tasks associated with full terraforming become more daunting and the technologies required more speculative. Yet who can doubt that if the first steps are taken, that the developments required to complete the job will not follow, for what is ultimately at stake is an infinite universe of habitable worlds.

Seen in such light, the task facing our generation, that of exploring Mars and learning enough about the planet and the methods of utilizing its resources to begin to transform it into a habitable planet, could not be more urgent, or more noble."

On to more earthly phantasmagoria: They're coming back! Run for your lives! Run for your lives!

http://billmoyers.com/2014/06/16/hospital-uses-executive-bonus-money-to-give-its-workers-a-raise/

Think tank with close Administration ties is now saying: Get back in Iraq

Really NSFW:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBYmiYnFg4M

Has Stanhope been to college? Has he studied science in any context? Has he, personally, ever lifted anyone out of addiction?

Who should listen to such a persons accusations of "junk science"?

(PS- I stopped the clip after ten seconds.)

(As noted over the weekend: For no discernible good reason, comedians often want to be adored for their sanctimony as well as their humor, and often baselessly in both respects. Stanhope's work is unknown to me, but the tone of voice didn't promise worthy impact in either context.)

Well, Crid, you should have hung in there. The guy is hilarious.