May the Fourth be with you all!
Today we celebrate Star Wars Day - yes, a fan day was created as as result of a coincidental pun. Star Wars Day or not, we must carry on with our Sardonic Saturdays on The Daily Quota, so I've decided to combine the two.
In staying faithful to both occasions, today's Daily Quota is a blog post from Take Me To Your Reader by Dave, a friend of mine, and an incredibly talented writer (especially when agitated). His sardonic prose is perfect for such a Saturday.
He writes about his disgust for the Mars One Project, a project which aims to put a group of inhabitants on Mars. Pretty cool stuff.
However, here's the twist - they plan to fund it by turning the entire endeavour into a reality TV show - where a global audience has a say in the astronauts, their lifestyle and other aspects of the mission.
No, they're serious.
Yep, that's right. A reality TV show where the contestants are on fucking Mars.
Dave, a huge science fiction fan himself, hates the concept. He sees it as hubristic and fiscally superfluous. He describes it as "the most irredeemably stupid idea that [he has] ever had the displeasure of being alive to hear about."
Here's a snippet:
Dave's blog is a pleasure to read - his prose has wit, his content is lol-worthy and his writing is very much a reflection of himself.
Sardonic Saturdays on The Daily Quota - where every silver lining has a cloud.
READ IT HERE
Today we celebrate Star Wars Day - yes, a fan day was created as as result of a coincidental pun. Star Wars Day or not, we must carry on with our Sardonic Saturdays on The Daily Quota, so I've decided to combine the two.
In staying faithful to both occasions, today's Daily Quota is a blog post from Take Me To Your Reader by Dave, a friend of mine, and an incredibly talented writer (especially when agitated). His sardonic prose is perfect for such a Saturday.
He writes about his disgust for the Mars One Project, a project which aims to put a group of inhabitants on Mars. Pretty cool stuff.
However, here's the twist - they plan to fund it by turning the entire endeavour into a reality TV show - where a global audience has a say in the astronauts, their lifestyle and other aspects of the mission.
No, they're serious.
Dave, a huge science fiction fan himself, hates the concept. He sees it as hubristic and fiscally superfluous. He describes it as "the most irredeemably stupid idea that [he has] ever had the displeasure of being alive to hear about."
Here's a snippet:
That's all Mars One is: some rich idiot's pot-valiant rigadoon, and the most extravagantly wasteful project ever proposed in the entire history of unforgivable bullshit. The arrogance and solipsism required to conceive a multi-billion-dollar manned mission to another planet after what we’ve done to this one is astonishing.Well said.
Dave's blog is a pleasure to read - his prose has wit, his content is lol-worthy and his writing is very much a reflection of himself.
Sardonic Saturdays on The Daily Quota - where every silver lining has a cloud.
READ IT HERE
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