I'd rather have the more intelligent beings in charge

Is this another way of saying "I for one welcome our ultra-intelligent robotic overlords!"?

From the article:

The football-field sized holes were observed by Mars Odyssey's Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) and have been dubbed the seven sisters --Dena, Chloe, Wendy, Annie, Abbey, Nikki and Jeanne--after loved ones of the researchers who found them.

Naming a bunch of massive holes after their girlfriends...that should probably read 'ex-loved ones'.