#how-do-we-get-our-intrepid-red-blooded-space-marines-to-mars-before-the-forces-of-international-communism? #wait-what-was-that-about-age-of-consent-laws #we-need-a-ragtag-group-of-all-american-teenagers-building-a-working-rocket-from-junk-in-their-backyard #like-Joe-Dante's-1985-opus-The-Explorers? #Yes!-exactly-like-that! #oh-yeah?-you-don't-think-american-youth-has-the-gumption #is-that-right #herbert? #COMRADE??? #you-don't-believe-we-can-conquer-mars-with-the-raw-virility-and-can-do-spirit-of-america's-youth? #[thumbing-suspenders]-now-i'm-just-a-simple-country-writer #there's-nothing-so-beautiful-as-the-limitless-vista-of-a-child's-imagination #pepperridge-farm-remembers #we're-going-to-arrive-as-conquerors-Heinlein:-and-turn-the-RED-planet-into-a-bastian-of-free-market-capitalism #we'll-just-have-to-destroy-the-planet-to-save-it #what-if-we-invented-a-metal-that-was-lighter-than-air #you're-all-just-reinventing-the-wheel #just-take-a-balloon-to-mars #you-can-go-ANYWHERE-in-a-balloon #oh-he-has-a-point #bitterkarella #midnight-society #midnight-society-threads