"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Real Benefit of a Colony on Mars
Submitted by Westernerd on Thu, 2013-01-10 03:00
Instead of forever having to listen to “If we can send a man to the moon, surely we can conquer [insert random challenge],” with “we” obviously being government, the new slogan will be: “If private enterprise can create a colony on Mars, surely it can do something as simple as build roads.”
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