[from occupied ga]

How is it that YOU are able to _KNOW_ it's just dust and rocks? Is it just garden variety dust and rocks

DUH, because the last two landers showed rocks and dust? Because it looks like exactly like rocks and dust? Because we have rocks and dust here, and the whole solar system was made out of the same stuff? Because there isn't any logical reason to think it's green cheese? Because those meteorites that land are rocks?

Because I don't give a flying $hit if rocks and dust on Mars look a little pinker than rocks and dust here and if you care so much why don't you spend all of your money to find out, but let me spend mine on what's important to me. I could have a mighty fine telescope for the money of mine that has been squandered by NASA over the last 20 years.

[Malsua]

>>DUH, because the last two landers showed rocks and dust<<

Ah, so those were ok to spend money on? No?

I get it, you're using knowledge gained by these space probes and landers as proof that we shouldn't spend any money on them. Forgetting of course that without them, you wouldn't have any way of knowing that they have ALREADY paid you a dividend unimaginable 50 years ago. Let's go back to the 50s shall we? We can go back to imagining that Mars needs women and they are invading soon! Woohoo. Your ideas sound vaguely reminiscent of another culture that is currently stagnated in the 7th century.

[Constantine XIII]

In reply to #39, just how exactly do you think we found out what was really on Mars in the first place? A ouiji board? :0P