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Tried to watch it twice. Never made it to the middle. It's SO bad, and not in an ironic or self-aware way.

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You lower them in, feet first. Then there's less chance of them running away. Sometimes a little chainsaw prep is needed.

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Look up Dan Quayle's speech on how we were going to get air from the water in the Martian canals, just after George H. W. Bush put him in actual charge of the Mars program.

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Only after his entire family died because Hollywood wouldn't let him go back to hunt food for them unless they could raise money to send a film crew with him.

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And a great show it was. The very best of the Space Operas.

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Which is big news to Ukranians who trace their country back to somewhere in the dark ages, despite being taken over by Tsars, Poles and everyone else. Think you mean the revival of Ukraine?

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Why don't you just say it was built in Khazaria, or the Khazar Khaganate?

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Man, you just spout that Russian propaganda, don't you. So the unique culture that is NOT RUSSIAN did not exist? The various nation-states from the middle ages onward did not exist? The Ukrainian People's Republic did not exist?

You want to deny the Holodomor too, Russian troll?

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Ridiculous. It was a design by political committee with 30 first stage engines and far too many points of failure.

Who is paying you to spout this stuff, and are they paying in roubles or fake tracksuits or what?

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Yeah, why develop space travel and colonies? It's not as if there are these humongous rocks called asteroids, which occasionally fall into a collision orbit with the Earth and need to be deflected out of that orbit, or that the Sun will eventually expand into a Red Giant star, and so we might need to move, or that there are loads of mineral resources out there in the solar system, or...

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In related news, Dok is fired again.

Best. Subhed. Ever.

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To paraphrase the great(?) Hershel Walker: "If the moon is part of Mars, why is there still Mars?"

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Not far enough!

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Two years lead time? I'm not worried. NASA, the ESA, Canada and Japan can figure out a fix for the Russian junk before then.And an all-Russian space station would, I'm sure, be as reliable and useful as their tanks, trucks and APCs. (Maybe Ukraine could deploy some space tractors?)

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Made a good Rifftrax episode, though.

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