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Comment Re:What? A CBS show is a fraud? No way! (Score 1) 193

by Thud457 (#48106623) Attached to: A Critical Look At Walter "Scorpion" O'Brien
too easy:
  • Survivor - starving people struggle to survive while uncaring overseers with video cameras heartlessly record their plight
  • Amazing Race - people, probably ones who escaped from the island in Survivor, flee pursuit while overseers with cameras record their crimes against the state
  • Thursday Night Football - FFA - Future Felons of America
  • CSI / Miami / New York - DNA always tells the truth
  • Bluebloods - The elite Chief of Police presides over a nepotistic dynasty, as is right.
  • Person of Interest - hackers can't escape from the loving all-seeing AI
  • NCIS / Los Angeles / New Orleans / JAG - we'll get you if you fuck with the Navy.
  • Two Broke Girls - occupy Brooklyn
  • Two and a Half Men - perennial loser's son is one of the disappeared. Stay in line, don't let this happen to you.
  • Hawaii Five O - again, don't fuck with the Navy.
  • The Mentalist - we can read your mind, resistance if futile. And the police will lie and trick you.
  • Mike an Molly - police officers are likable normal joes, not crazed thugs with pepperspray and tazers.
  • The Good Wife - a party apparatchik leverages her political connections to get ahead.
  • Madam Secretary - hey look, we're really good guys, we don't really want to bomb you. but you need bombing.
  • Big Bang Theory - ok, I have to use my lifeline on this one...
  • Scorpion - hackers can be good, too. They work for the State.
  • Elementary - Winston Smith solves crimes for the police.
  • Criminal Minds - that's you. There's no escape.

Comment Wilfred White -- WW, geddit? (Score 1) 549

by Thud457 (#48036277) Attached to: Elon Musk: We Must Put a Million People On Mars To Safeguard Humanity

I think Musk just jumped the shark.

PHEH.
When Dear Leader Futarman jumps the shark, you can be sure there will be a motorcycle, and a shark, involved.

At least I hope he can do better than holing up in a casino for years and allowing his company to be used as a front by the CIA to steal a sunken Soviet submarine.
Actually, come to think about it, THAT's pretty rad.
Mars

Elon Musk: We Must Put a Million People On Mars To Safeguard Humanity 549

Posted by Soulskill from the let's-send-them-to-saturn-instead dept.
An anonymous reader writes: Elon Musk's ambitions for SpaceX keep getting bigger. First he wanted to make the trip to Mars affordable, then he wanted to establish a city-sized colony, and now he's got his eye on the future of humanity. Musk says we need a million people on Mars to form a "sustainable, genetically diverse civilization" that can survive as humanity's insurance policy. He continued, "Even at a million, you're really assuming an incredible amount of productivity per person, because you would need to recreate the entire industrial base on Mars. You would need to mine and refine all of these different materials, in a much more difficult environment than Earth. There would be no trees growing. There would be no oxygen or nitrogen that are just there. No oil." How fast could we do it? Within a century, once the spacecraft reusability problem is solved. "Excluding organic growth, if you could take 100 people at a time, you would need 10,000 trips to get to a million people. But you would also need a lot of cargo to support those people. In fact, your cargo to person ratio is going to be quite high. It would probably be 10 cargo trips for every human trip, so more like 100,000 trips. And we're talking 100,000 trips of a giant spaceship."

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