Chavez Says Capitalism May Have Destroyed Life On Mars

[Gawdzilla Sama]

(I can't put this is "Science". First, its just stupid. Second, its from Fux News.)

Chavez Says Capitalism May Have Destroyed Life On Mars

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez thinks capitalism may be responsible for the lack of life on the planet Mars.

"I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet," Chavez said in a speech on Tuesday.

The socialist president has been a fierce opponent of capitalism, and during his World Water Day speech, Chavez blamed capitalism for destroying Earth's water supplies as well.

"Here on planet Earth, where hundreds of years ago or less there were great forests, now there are deserts. Where there were rivers, there are deserts," Chavez said.

Guy Webster, a spokesman with the NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, noted: "Water has been discovered on Mars." But whether the planet ever supported life has yet to be confirmed.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/03/ ... z1HVxx8tjK

[klr]

Oh dear god ...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

He's wrong of course. Mars is too big to fail.

[klr]

He's wrong of course. Mars is too big to fail.

... and also because Mars still has oodles of mineral and metal resources that those pesky capitalists somehow never got around to exploiting.

[redunderthebed]

chavez constantly shoots himself in the foot

[Clinton Huxley]

It was Libertarianism that destroyed life on Mars, probably.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

It were the joos.

[tattuchu]

Time for musical interlude

[Ian]

Chavez is pointing fingers in the wrong direction. It was capitalism that destroyed Venus. Globalization and industrialization run amok with no regard for the environment. Venus would be much cooler if it weren't for its super-greenhouse atmosphere. Clearly, that's what happened there.

Mars was probably destroyed by Skynet. Their civilization never had a Martian version of John Connor.

[sandinista]

I like Hugo's sense of humor. He probably knew that would be reported by fox! In reality though it was probably the evil commies who destroyed mars.

[.Morticia.]

I like Hugo's sense of humor. He probably knew that would be reported by fox! In reality though it was probably the evil commies who destroyed mars.

it's not called the red planet fer nothing

[Elderito]

And thus we see the problem with ignorant leaders. They can be so embarrassing. Chavez is obviously intelligent, as he as slyly maneuvered to power and retained it, but such a stupid statement cries out about his lack of education. He has become a laughingstock in the Latin American press. (Unable to believe he would say something so stupid I decided to verify with non-Fox sources, and yeah the report is accurate if La Nacion and others are to be believed, along with the video)

[sandinista]

And thus we see the problem with ignorant leaders. They can be so embarrassing. Chavez is obviously intelligent, as he as slyly maneuvered to power and retained it, but such a stupid statement cries out about his lack of education. He has become a laughingstock in the Latin American press. (Unable to believe he would say something so stupid I decided to verify with non-Fox sources, and yeah the report is accurate if La Nacion and others are to be believed, along with the video)

Holy shit people, it was an analogy, a humorous one!

[egbert]

And thus we see the problem with ignorant leaders. They can be so embarrassing. Chavez is obviously intelligent, as he as slyly maneuvered to power and retained it, but such a stupid statement cries out about his lack of education. He has become a laughingstock in the Latin American press. (Unable to believe he would say something so stupid I decided to verify with non-Fox sources, and yeah the report is accurate if La Nacion and others are to be believed, along with the video)

Holy shit people, it was an analogy, a humorous one!

[Gawdzilla Sama]