If you come up with something, there are umpteen fathers on Earth with teenage daughters who would be interested.

FWIW, though the longish article begged skimming, it touched on the settlement being genetically diverse from earth. What would a Martian descendant of Earth look like in fifty generations? IDK, but I'd like it if humanity knew one day.

In the event I find myself senile, I would like to continue operating as long as possible without that information.

If I still have my wits about me, I would prefer that nine people have to reread my speculation so that one set of virgin ears were reached. It's for the children.

For what it's worth, I'd rather watch the empire crumble from comfort of my reasonably private home, with some well-deserved healthcare.

The march towards abridging of inconvenient individual rights always begins at the most loathsome.

Sympathizer, communist, witch, traitor, pedobear, terrorist... sell whatever's the current Beelzebub.

If the defendants advertised carefully, they may have a legal leg to stand on.

When you are offering for sale a product or service that could be operated adjunct to a criminal offense, you'd be wise to do the CYA in triplicate.

It doesn't make you more social so much as it makes everyone else at the party more interesting.

Happens all the time when relying on the multi-plug surge arrestor for one's delicate equipment. They sell a much better unit that takes the place of two breaker spaces in the main panel, for under a hundred bucks.

Oh. And wouldn't you know it? There's no surge arrestor in your organic brain.

You mean you talked like that before?

Ah, to be naive again.

People always speculate they would like to return to an earlier version of themselves, if they could know what they know now, but forgetting the the awesome sauce of youth is inexperience.

Every man with a disposable income has a toy collection of one sort or another.