[fishtank]

Oh, I do, too.

Mars missions should be for colonization, not for non-existent ecology.

[plain talk]

“Mars missions should be for colonization, not for non-existent ecology.”

Both. However we are a long way from any sort of colonization.

The search for life elsewhere is an important mission of NASA and science in general and will continue.

[Boogieman]

It would be exponentially easier to colonize Antarctica, or the bottom of the ocean, than to colonize Mars.