Will you ever get it right? Will you ever get the fucking title right?
They did not fail to predict.
They said we (yes, i was there at the time) could stay home since the likelihood of a strong earthquake was not heightened by the preceeding MONTHS-long swarm.

L'Aquila, Italy, 2009.
Mistakes must not be repeated.

Morons modding me offtopic, go figure what the fuck is up with them.

Thus my nickname.

If i recall correctly, similar reasoning was adopted by Mr. Homer J. Simpson while addressing his car's engine issue as he proceeded to string a strip of duct tape over the blinking warning light.

I have a rather trivial gmail nickname. I have 3 mails inside the spam folder and of course none in my inbox. Either i've been extremely conservative in publicizing my address or you are especially bad at it.

"Susceptibility to bribes"? I agree but at the same time i can't help but notice that this comes from the same system that legalized bribery.
If you're important enough, of course.

Default on student loans? Sickening.

Yes, that's exactly what happened. Perhaps i didn't express myself clearly enough.

You must be into marketing, you almost convinced me to fund your expedition!

Your habitats are fine and dandy but how do you bring thousands of them on Mars (+ extras of course)?

I do realize the time scale and i agree about the need of having a "backup humanity". I'd go as far as having colonies way outside the solar system too. Though i don't think these colony can rely on confined habitats. I don't think they can be self-sustaining. Too many things will go wrong. At most they can be good up to a thousand years (very optimistically speaking) but after that you're gonna need a proper planet to thrive, especially if we're talking millions of people.

I'm not denying religious influence, of course. The dark ages were such a long period of technological and scientific advancements. Then came something else.

In what way i'm making it worse? Oh and off topic, BTW.

I don't want to break my comment up to fill that stupid space and since you cannot leave it empty at least i entertain myself in "protesting" that way.