The Land Of Honk

Google Israel Folau and GoFundMe. The results may shock you Mr Thompson.

Things to know – if you a yte and have a nice seat for a ten hour flight, and refuse to sell it to a football player who wants it, you are a racist. A racist with insulted WHITENESS, no less.
Are your collard greens problematic ?
NB: No self respecting person buys collard greens in a bag; the odds of this guy ever having eaten (let alone buying and cooking) them asymptotically approaches zero; I have no doubts that the bag had a picture of a PoC, he would have been screaming that the bag was pushing racial stereotypes. Some people live, as has been repeatedly pointed out, to find things about which to be offended.
Finally, the guy who makes cars that spontaneously combust wants us, I think, to trust his rockets with this.

I saw one of those Occupy Mars T-shirts this weekend. Is this nonsense gaining momentum? Buzz Aldrin has been banging on about this for a while. Trump has spoken about it recently. Short of a radical advancement in space travel technology such that a craft can get to Mars and back inside of a month or two, this idea is a giant waste of money. No one is going to Mars on one of Elon’s rockets and I see nothing remotely on the horizon design-wise let alone a POC that is up to the job. Anything short of working toward rapid improvement in space transportation technology (and I would argue even that) is a giant money suck. If Elon wants to put his own money into it, fine. Sucking money our of my pocket? No, thank you. Go away.

No one is going to Mars on one of Elon’s rockets…
Especially when he doesn’t know the difference between the moon and Mars…

Cis and trans were appropriated from STEM
I don’t know, is Geography a STEM discipline? Cis- and trans- Alpine, Atlantic, and others, have long been familiar. I learned Geography as an adjunct of History, back when we’d never heard the STEM acronym.

Humans confined in a small space, living in psychologically draining conditions.
One wonders how Columbus &c. ever managed.

Going straight to Mars is probably not the best approach. The Moon is much closer, so less travel time, and has all the elemental resources needed to establish arbitrarily large habitats on its surface. Better than the Gobi as it’s not bordered by hostile countries and the weather is very predictable.
Once you’ve got a decent-sized population on Luna, then you’ll have the infrastructure to build an Orbital Ring around Earth, thereby bringing launch costs down to pennies per pound, and the tools to launch large spacecraft to anywhere you want. Might make more sense to build a bunch of O’Neill cylinders though and equip them with ion drives or solar sails. Takes longer to get anywhere, but you’d have all the “sea, sky, wind in the hair, familiar smells…etc” that you could want.

Depends what you read, though doesn’t it?
Not if you are talking about cis- and trans-, at least before the Clown Quarter and SJWs co-opted the prefixes. I can’t recall off hand anyone talking about driving the golden spike on a ciscontinental railroad, the crowds gathering for some early aviator’s Cisatlantic flight, the division of the Palestine Mandatory into Cisjordan and Transjordan, and so on.

I didn’t say it was pleasant, my point is it was natural. You have a very odd notion of what it would be like to sit in a cramped metal compartment with no one but the three other people on your trip to talk to for months on end, traveling 40 million miles through absolute nothingness, nothing really to see after the first couple of days, eating bland food, breathing the same reprocessed air, with very little real work to do. They haven’t successfully performed that in a simulation container right here on earth for more than a few weeks before the dynamics fall apart…..and doing it all in a machine built by the lowest bidder on a government contract…and that’s beside the even greater risks of the return flight. Planning a mission to Mars on taxpayers’ money. Yeah, great. Hell, even taking this piss on it is costing us.

if you are talking about cis- and trans-, at least before the Clown Quarter and SJWs co-opted the prefixes  
The leftist march through the institutions of academia began by colonizing the humanities, not the sciences; so it seems more likely leftist academics “co-opted the prefixes” from History and Geography, where cis- and trans- have been in continuous use since the Classical era, for as long as Latin was the international language of scholars, and carried over into English unchanged beginning with some of the earliest published English translations of (and commentaries on) classical authors.
Of course it’s possible some deconstructionists or Grievance Studiers swiped the terms magpie-fashion from a science book, if they happened to be reading one; but the terms were already known to them from texts in their own academic bailiwick, and that should be enough to weight the probability there.

The terms “transvestite” and “transsexual” were in use long before the Left decided to make mascots out of all the various non-heterosexual groups. In fact, the Left originally loathed and despised them. (Sometimes, I believe, labeling them symptoms of bourgeois decadence. Can anyone tell me if my memory is correct here?)

What with the sea, sky, wind in their hair, familiar smells, fresh salt air, sunrise, sunset, rain
You have a very odd notion of what a transatlantic ocean voyage to nowhere using early Tudor-era sailing technology is like.
Not sure what ocean-going exploration has to do with O’Neill Cylinders in Hohmann transfer orbits between Earth and Mars. The environmental conditions inside the cylinder could match any conditions the inhabitants would like from back on Earth, including the smells, breezes, fresh air, etc.
I have to assume you’re taking the piss.
Nope. Not that I’d want the government to be involved in colonizing any extraterrestrial bodies of course. Uncle Sam would just screw it up.
I was specifically talking about the technological aspect. An O’Neill cylinder can be up to four miles in diameter, so not exactly a “cramped metal compartment”, and it could support tens of thousands of residents. No one in his right mind would imagine a Mars colonization journey built along the same design architecture as the Apollo missions.
As for Chester’s objections, well Mars orbit has something that Antarctica doesn’t: distance from Earth. Terraforming Mars would be silly, but strip mining it for the raw materials to build a few billion space habitats on the O’Neill Cylinder scale or larger would make sense. The internal weather would be whatever you wanted it to be, and the shell itself would protect from Solar radiation (which isn’t as intense at Mars as here on Earth anyway).

no evidence that leftists, particularly in Angry and Useless Studies where this idiocy was so recently spawned, have studied either [History or Geography] (forget about Latin)
Not studied, no, agreed, I wouldn’t go that far; but they held positions on the faculty which meant they held degrees: to earn which they must have cracked the books at one time, even if they didn’t mark and inwardly digest what was in them, only picking up terms of art to be repurposed as bafflegab.