.. and I am sure he will sell Mars for Billions, or Trillions if he can find a serious buyer, once it is all set up and running.. just like Virgin Mobile..

Oh come on
Just declare in a newspaper somewhere that we are certain that there is gold on Mars and humans will be over there in any which way possible.

If that means that some government on the planet who does not have an aversion to strapping a nuclear reactor to several thousand tonnes of fuel and launching it into space to become the core energy generation system for our planet's interplanetary bus.. then it will happen.

Gold, I tell you, gold. Trust human nature to bypass all problems and concentrate on getting there and back. Greed and stupidity can solve just about any problem, in the same way that a hammer can solve just about any problem..

He has his hand.

If he gets bored, he has his other hand.

Worst comes to worst it is quite likely that the spacecraft will be packed with computer equipment and will have several TB of data containing books, games, videos and for the worst case scenario where someone is BORED there most likely will be a facility where he can go code or do actual work like scientific experiments.

Bored? No.
Go completely nuts? Sure

Where do I sign up?

Thanks for the imagery.

My first thought was 'So thankful that humans and trees don't produce viable offspring' which lead to 'I wonder if referencing humans who mate with vegetables is appropriate here'.. leading to ..well.. 'anything'.

... that humans will have sex with anything..

One for each type!

Funniest user
Most insightful user
Most interesting user
Most informative user
Most overrated user

and be able to limit by day, week, month and year

and the Funniest User of the Week is sqldr

Most Interesting user of all time is CmdrTaco!

Flamer of the week is: unknownlamereviltwin

Could add this to the Hall of Fame

I am currently halfway through Secret of Mana
It's quite relaxing to play through taking advantage of game mechanics to avoid unessential or boring grinding and enjoy the game play

It's still on.. and has been for over 4 decades.. do try to keep up ..

I used to like email best, but since everybody seems to be top-posting these days I find it rather useless.

Can I suggest having a read of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting#Choosing_the_proper_posting_style

Unsure exactly where you are coming from.. Let's check Gmail, for a start. Click "Reply" on an email. Yep, it puts the message being replied to as indents and the cursor at the TOP.

My direct line manager at work is a prick. A real ass. His favorite trick is to reply to email with one liners like "sure"... with no email history. There have been several times when I have had to send an email back asking WTF

The whole point of replying above, below or inline is to keep a trail of the email history. For non work emails in gmail I can put up with having to open a 'conversation' of individual emails, although the recent changes to gmail make it very difficult to read a 'conversation' and I have now given up and don't read email history in gmail unless I absolutely have to. Add to this that gmail uses subject line to combine single emails into 'conversations' and it is difficult to manage when the subject line changes it gets very messy.

At work it is different. Many emails are a one shot or a one shot and one reply affair. Fine. However, the majority of serious business or technical related emails I deal with have at least 3 inputs with some being bounced backwards and forwards for months. Quite a few emails are forwards and replies with a chain of responses from various areas in the organisation. How am I supposed to see this history when people chop it out?

Out of interest, my work uses Lotus Notes. Yes, it has 'threading'. What is your point? It does not help or solve the problem of tying emails together.