All that money, and the only purpose is to see if there is life there? Unreal!
It almost sounds as if this Mars mission is, at least partly, religious motivated. The religion of Humanism, that is. God is the enemy of Humanists.
Yes! That's it! I can see now why they are willing to spend billions of our money: To disprove the existence of God.
I'm sure glad to now know the reason, even I don't agree that is what we should be spending our tax dollars on.
Say...isn't there supposed to be some sort of "seperation of church and state" somewhere in the dark, nether reaches of judicial thought?
Why can't we sue NASA over this to make them toe the line?