Because...

1. We don't have a rocket big enough to carry the bulldozers.
2. Fifty years isn't long enough for the public enquiry to be resolved and all the objections from the locals to be resolved - that 'Curiosity' can be a bit of a dick at public meetings, I'm told.
3. We'd need special space suits to prevent the builders dying because their oxygen supply has escaped through gap at the back of their jeans where you can see their bum crack.
4. We already have cities... do we really need -another- one?

... flitting between Skyrim, Dirt 3, Oblivion and various Assassin's Creed's (Black Flag is a particular favourite)..

So yeah, I'm living in a simulation.

Can't speak for everyone else, though.

... you should be able to ask it to make you a coffee. This never works with Google. Cortana is even worse. And Siri just spills sugar all over the side and uses lukewarm water.

Does "scribbling your message on a piece of paper and handing it under the desk to that pretty girl you've liked for ages" count as an instant message? If so my vote is wrong, it should have been two. Mind you, I've not used this old fashioned method for a few years (but it's still 'installed'... I mean, I've still got some paper.)

So Samsung have invented a way for cleaning smoke and melted plastic from the inside of smartphones without causing any further damage? Have they got a patent for this newest of technology?

Having said that, Whisky Poker would be good too.

How big is the sensor it uses? Will it fit?

People would still need to get -across- the city. I was thinking about this the other day - if the roads are going to be jammed up, then perhaps there'd be a way to use rail to get people about, maybe run the trains -underneath- the city somehow. There must be old tunnels or caves or whatever they could run the tracks through?

I think you've summed up the whole of politics in that last sentence of yours there. We rarely see it described so succinctly.

Do I detect a hint of aggression?

Am I the only one that finds the irony of you post hugely amusing? You're complaining about my light hearted dig by... err.. having a right fucking moan? Nicely done. This doesn't make you look a complete pillock at all. Well, it mostly doesn't.

It's the first time that living in one of the Five Eyes countries appears to have been beneficial.

It's a hollow victory.

... the last time I bought light bulbs. We're still working through our collection of 100W light bulbs. I'd like to switch to low energy ones, but we have to piss off the climate change liars somehow.

Anyway, when I did buy them, I paid in sterling, not in these dollar thingies being quoted in the vote. It doesn't make it clear if it means Canadian dollars or Australian ones, and that would make the value different.

The Earth was created 7000 years ago by some unknown but benign power, evolution doesn't exist - how can some equation possibly describe it using mathematics? Mathematics itself is obviously a made up tool anyway, so you can make it say whatever you want. They'll be using Empirical Science next to debunk what is clearly the One Truth. :)

But apart from that you think the extra long petrol pump is do-able?

We could get a shitload of fossil fuels and take it there (perhaps with a really -long- petrol pump pipe) and burn it off in the atmosphere, perhaps by driving lots of 4x4 SUV's. That should help ensure that Martian average temperatures rise nicely by 1 or maybe even 2 degrees Celsius in only a century.