Goodnight, Mars

Mars One Ventures, the company behind an improbable plan to colonize the red planet via global reality show, confirmed last week that it is now in bankruptcy. News reports of this demise brought on a whipping storm of schadenfreude: The "Fyre Festival of Space"--as several outlets called it--had been canceled before liftoff. "It was terribly mismanaged, shortsighted and possibly even fraudulent," said the New York Post. "The false promise is over," added Forbes. Forget the fact that Mars One failed; I mean, we all knew that it would fail.