I think you’re talking to the wrong person! 
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In Lego?
apparently the latest thing to emerge from Shoreditch is competitive socialising
including
urban axe throwing with your colleagues anyone?
The people involved don’t think it’s a wind-up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asgardia_(nation). However a few quotes from the Wiki article include:
Legal scholars doubt that Asgardia -1 can be regarded as a sovereign territory and Asgardia has not yet attained the goal of being recognized as a nation state.
Asgardia intends to partner with a non-signatory to the Outer Space Treaty (OST), perhaps an African state such as Ethiopia or Kenya, in the hopes of circumventing the OST’s restriction on nation-states claiming territory in outer space.
Sa’id Mosteshar, of the London Institute of Space Policy and Law, says this (a plan to move to crowdfunding) suggests that Asgardia lacks a credible business plan.
Eventually, Asgardia hopes to have a colony in orbit. This will be expensive … although Asgardia’s organisers point out that setting up a small nation in orbit will be a lot easier than colonising distant Mars.
VB
Lembit Opik is their head of parliament 
He’s gone up in the world politically though.
It is rivalling AsCatia for dominance of space. But the cats have possession of a weapons technology that we mere mortals can dream of.
Since they use this house as a convening point for their top (cat) secret negotiations, I have been party to the Pussy Ray weapon, that they keep buried in the litter tray of armageddon.
Or, simplified, credibility
it might be time to open a window, the fumes appear to be getting to you…
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it’s been a long day
Is this actually true though? There is ground on Mars, and readily available materials. There are also tunnels, which could provide a decent amount or protection from radiation and the Martian elements.
Underground lakes too. Think of the water skiing if you could get a speedboat there.
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I would imagine sacking John Humphrys would get half of them back for starters
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Basically no, it isn’t. If the small nation was two people in a tin can then that might well be cheaper than Mars (think the Russians’ Mir). But for any more than, maybe, 10 people Mars becomes an increasingly better bet. In the end the issues with Mars will be surviving the radiation dose on the journey and generating the food and energy you need when you get there. Solar will have to do for the latter (there’s less than half the amount of sunshine but the thin atmosphere means a larger fraction reaches the surface). And you probably have to accept that if you get really seriously ill then it’ll kill you. But there are countries on earth where that’s true.
VB
What does the panel think about train managers going off piste and doing their own script for the stations and buffet details?
- A welcome diversion from the usual robotic drudgery which brightens up a dull journey.
- Public address AIDS.
- Fuckin’ freestyling Michael McIntyre wannabee twats.
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Let a neural network generate a recipe
Artich Soup Salad
cakes, cheese/eggs, cassamaes
2 medium onion
1 tablespoon red minced garlic
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup orange milk, baking sheet
1 shredded, chopped
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon crushed milk
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper
½ teaspoon crushed miniature
1 cup chives or canned milk
1 cut into ½-inch can stock
1 single sugar
½ cup chlithed (or cold white wine wine
1 chives.
Fry Puely and oil over medium-read slices on the dish. Add the microwave beef and cook and cook.