It really hit home how sad this was when I was watching Stargate SG-1 and they had to send up a space shuttle to get Jack O'Neil and company out of a stranded alien space craft in orbit. I then realized in current times, the use of a space shuttle would be part of the science fiction.

You sound Italian.

I'm not a drunk, I'm Irish.

Plan A continues as planned.

The head part sort of looks like a space marine. I think I see where this is going.

It's been pony for a long time. http://biobreak.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/ghostcrawler.jpg The moose thing comes from the Canadian Winter Olympics when they didn't add a pet for it like they did for the Chinese Summer Olmypics 2 years earlier.

Keep in mind Blizzcon was this last weekend. /. was probably there and did a bunch of interviews. People complain about this every year. Be ready to be the first next year.

Ctrl+F, "pony"... nothing. I'm not reading this until he makes with the goods

The proposal of a one-way tripe has been around for a long time. From what I have read, most, if not all people in the field that are qualified, would be willing to volunteer to go. And why not? You would be one of the first people to set foot on an alien world. You would be history. Movies would be made of your life. Ego aside, the experience would be amazing. You'd see things no other human ever has and discover things that could possible change the way humanity looks at itself. This would be one of the most epic journeys mankind has undertaken. Many qualified sane people would willingly volunteer to boldly go where no man has gone before.

Let me count... Yep, exactly one of me still. I'll monitor and alert you if there gets to be more than one of me.