Tom Sachs: Mars is a place where wifi and phone service...

Apr 27, 2012
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Mars is a place where wifi and phone service operate on a 20 minute delay in both directions, and when some asshole on Earth forgets to convert feet to meters those casters that were supposed to come on the next resupply mission that you need, like, right now, vaporize in the upper atmosphere and are gone forever. In Manhattan you never have enough time or space, but forget Brooklyn or Connecticut; on Mars you’ll have too much of both. It really is the dream. On Mars, you could spend a month looking for interesting rocks and build copies of them out of plywood, if you wanted, and no one would bother you or ask you why you are doing everything the hard, expensive way.

- Lt. Beeston 4/26/2012