[Spruce]

I hope they find gold on Mars.

[RightWhale]

Part of terraforming a new planet would be making it smell nice. Aha! a new tech specialty!

[xp38]

This explains the anger in Marvin.

[Consort]

That's why the Martians live underground.

[mercy]

I wonder what the story will be when they find Mars once had all the right conditions for life .... but no fossils or any sign of life is found. Of course they will lie and say the conditions weren't really there. At first they will come out with stories about how the conditions seem to have been there but after a while and they find no history of biological activity of any kind ... the story will change. Scientists cannot abide any evidence countering the 'fact' of life having just sprung from the primordial soup as they are wont to say. Spontaneous generation. They can't explain it. They can't prove it. There is no evidence. But they believe it. Scholars that they are.