"This is give and take, not a debating society."

If all you have available to "give" are poor imitations of intelligent debate, frankly it's not worth "taking" any of it.

Bravo, ad hominem and straw man mixed together in one stinky mess of an argument.

Congratulations (?).

The relevance of flight recorders to a missile attack is ... absent.

lololololololol, were you expecting anything else?

It's ESA, not NASA, and the focus of the work was apparently the vision-based guidance system, not the quadcopter propulsion (which indeed would be absurd on Mars).

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activit...

They must be planning ahead for the time when terraforming is complete.

That.

If you squint hard enough, you can turn them into empirically testable predictions.

"Yet, less than 10 (that's ten out of hundreds of thousands, disagree with the simple finding that humans are altering the average global temperature of the planet"

I'm sorry, until reading this point, I thought you were being serious.

"what is the scientific doctrine that Democrats typically reject?"

I wouldn't go so far as "typically ..." etc., but here are some candidates:

- "more guns, less crime"
- "skepticism in global warming science is warranted"
- "collectivist economies fail"

"for instance, by making clear that you can believe in human-induced climate change and still be a conservative Republican."

Unsurprisingly, TFA/NYT chose that polarity as an exemplar instead of its opposite.

TFA is loonie. According to its own data, the "fossil fuel subsidies" it is hoping to redirect are those that third-world OPEC type countries currently give to their own populations in the form of supercheap oil. Withholding that money would be regime suicide (plus possibly population genocide).

"The day you pay back everything you've ever gotten from society"

I've more than repaid my share. Many times over. I wouldn't be surprised if so have most of us here.

"Should be fun."

Should be a "fun" instant civil war.

"So, is it surprising that the company ... is having problems connecting with the general population in 2014?"

Stupid loaded question. It is not having problems "connecting with the general population", unless by "connecting" you mean a completely different verb.