Posts Tagged ‘Mars’

For All Pigkind

By mike flugennockSunday - June 20th, 2021Categories: space

In the space of about two weeks, I’m hit with the news that trillionaire serial worker abuser Jeff Bezos has found someone willing to throw down $28 mil for a suborbital joyride with him — and that Elon Musk will refuse to recognize Earth laws in his gated suburbs on Mars. Doubtless Musk will have some Space Force grunts on-call to keep a lid on things out there.

I’m especially bugged that Bezos has chosen July 20 as his launch date; I’m sure he thinks he’s making some deep statement or something, but instead I’m just insulted somehow. Christ, 28 million dollars to go suborbital with Jeff Friggin’ Bezos. Bah, I’d rather ride Apollo 13.

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Water On Mars!

By mike flugennockMonday - September 28th, 2015Categories: environment, Globalization, space

As excited as I am about the discovery of liquid water on Mars, I still can’t help wondering… will the first humans on Mars be a bunch of Nestlé workers with a big drilling rig?

After all, let’s not forget that the CEO of Nestlé thinks that water isn’t a human right, and should be privatized.

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