[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.

[Publius6961]

This thread has sure degenerated into the luddites vs the spenders. The heart of the article (mainly ignored) is yet another assertion and whining not about spending less but bemoaning that the money is not being spent on the usual social parasites.

Time to move on to another thread...