[servantboy777]

Good grief. Ok..so there's water. What now? We are BROKE as a nation. Are we now going to spend billions of dollars to fly out there to confirm what the probes have already confirmed?

What will we do there? A hundred and forty million miles away, are we going to mine? Are we going to farm?

Besides, the first manned flight “to” Mars would likely be a death mission. Notice I didn't say fly to and from?

One small glitch, whether it be Firm/software, mechanical, pneumatic will doom a mission such as this.

I dunno, just me I guess, but I don't see the need to spend billions to fly men out to Mars.

[Charles Martel]

We lost our Martian rocket ship
The high paid spokesman said
Looks like that silly rocket ship
Has lost it's cone-shaped head

We spent ninety jillion dollars
Tryin' to get a look at Mars
I hear universal laughter
Ringing out among the stars

- Jimmy Buffett, Fruitcakes