Deathmatch On Mars: an Interview With Warren Ellis 94
pigrabbitbear writes "Iconic comic book writer (Transmetropolitan, Planetary, Red), cult novelist (Crooked Little Vein), futurist intellectual, and beloved Internet curmudgeon Warren Ellis, known for his impassioned arguments for space travel, talks to Motherboard about Newt Gingrich's presidential plans for lunar colonies and conquering Mars." Warren Ellis does not mince words.
The farther and more unattainable the dream... (Score:5, Insightful)
Celebrity journalism redux (Score:3, Insightful)
I almost gave up on the second question - because it by then it was already clear he was pretty much clueless. (Though most people won't realize it, because they've grown up on the same fairy tales about the Shuttle.) The third cinched it, and I did give up with his nonsense about the Saturn V. He's just another fanboy pining for the glory days.
This is a prime example of celebrity journalism - his words are only considered as being valuable because he's famous (at least in a narrow circle). What's next Slashdot? Interviewing Clint Eastwood for his opinions because he's played an astronaut?
Re:All the Republicans are Loony Tunes (Score:0, Insightful)
I don't have a dog in this fight. My preferred candidates either didn't run or imploded on impact. Theists, or not. The Republicans are NOT Barack Hussein Obama. That is enough reason to vote G.O.P.
Re:All the Republicans are Loony Tunes (Score:3, Insightful)
Since you provide no concrete reasons/facts for your comments, one is left to surmise that your a bigoted raciest like the rest of your GOP brethren that spew similar hate speech.
Re:All the Republicans are Loony Tunes (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:All the Republicans are Loony Tunes (Score:5, Insightful)
I think Republicans would like religion to be the defining difference between the two parties. They have certainly pulled out all the stops in pandering to know-nothing theocrats, but in fact the great majority of Democrats as well as independents and Republicans profess religion and for the most part the religion they profess is some form of Christianity.
The difference on religion is mainly between Republicans who see nothing wrong with the government promoting their religion and most everybody else who think the government should be restricted from involving itself with religious belief.
To me, the more defining issue is economic. Republicans want an unregulated market and don't tax the rich. Democrats want the government to make everybody play nice and use taxes to help poor people get a leg up.
Independents apparently can't decide or worse can't distinguish between those approaches.
Re:They're both delusional (Score:2, Insightful)
It is easy to imagine a stable, sustainable, happy human population on earth.
If you're a dumb hippy listening to old John Lennon records, yes. In the real world, 'sustainable' is impossible in the long term and in the short term means an authoritarian state that would make 1984 look like utopia with an end to all innovation.
Either we get off this planet soon or we die. 'Sustainable' is just more hippy BS.
Re:All the Republicans are Loony Tunes (Score:4, Insightful)
As a token non-American reading this thread, I'd just like to say, that of all the candidates running, the rest of the world would much prefer Obama to get in for a second term.
There's a reason Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize: it was to say thank you to America for at last no electing a foaming-at-the-mouth isolationist war-monger.