[Alex Murphy]

We’ve already figured out an effective way to warm up a planet: pump greenhouse gases into its atmosphere. [Chris McKay, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California] imagines a not-too-distant future in which we park machinery on Mars that converts carbon and fluorine in the Martian soil into insulating chlorofluorocarbons, and spews them into the planet’s puny atmosphere like a protein shake designed to bulk it up....The practice of making a dead world habitable is called terraforming. In science fiction, Earthlings terraform other planets in order to occupy them, usually after trashing Earth.

RIPLEY: That the atmosphere processor?
BURKE: Uh-hunh. One of thirty or so, all over the planet. They're completely automated. We manufacture them, by the way.

[Caipirabob]

Gold rush...as in exploitation...

And today stocks have taken a stellar leap as it was learned that humans produce a protein that inhibits the symptoms of “andromeda’s disorder” Astor-pharmaceutical stocks are on a 800 year high as speculators leap into to reap profits from harvesting human proteins. As humans have been declared to be non-intelligent, low level life forms by a recent court ruling, there appears to be nothing to prevent immediate access to current wild populations...

[showme_the_Glory]

“In space, no one can hear you scream!”

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

“It wasn’t the Martians’ fault their planet died.”

Bush! (White guy).

[GeronL]

If I met aliens I would ask for all first publication rights to all of their words, works and images