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EarlG

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4. Wow, so the smartest man on the planet

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Feb 12, 2026, 11:53 AM

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who has been telling everyone for the past 20 years that he's going to build a colony on Mars, has finally figured out that building a colony on Mars is really hard.

If only he'd known this earlier!

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