I'm normally very liberal about submissions-- I figure whatever we upvote belongs here. But this... I don't understand why this even got submitted.
I presume this is a follow on to the recent top story regarding colonization of Mars come reality show next decade.
I 100% agree. If this is allowed to continue HN's front page will soon look like /r/TIL
This would never make the front of Reddit. What would the headline be... "TIL that some people speculate about terraforming Mars"?
No, the trick is to pick some obscure impressive sounding factoid from the article and use it as the headline. Then link to the root of the article so that anyone interested in it has to search for it.