[Skybird]

NASA seems to be really desperate these days, craving for attention (and funding), considering how many events there have been now when a lost fart was blown up to a sensational, at least a mysterious revelation of some assumes spectacular news.

I honestly think these days that the whole idea of sending robots to Mars, and Mars exploration and painting visions of futures on Mars in brightest colours, all is about getting money for just going on with business as usual in the present. Forming the future has little to do with it, getting along this very day and paying the cheques by the end of the month is what it is about. The future, any kind of realism - imo have less and lesser to do with it.

It's like with commercials for washing powder or tooth paste. Clean. Cleaner. Shiny white clean. Cleaner than ever before. Clinically purified. Health-improving purity. Whiter than white. Ultimate white. Perfectly ultimate super-white.

The days of the race to the moon and all that fascination are over. Get over it. If you want that back, read a good classical SF book from the 50s-80s range.

I admit I am very tired of hearing all this fantastic news from Mars. All I see on the pics is a desolate, boring, lonely place not comforting to the human soul. And when we cannot even tackle Smog in our cities, not to mention other environmental issues, we still dream of terraforming an alien world and atmosphere...?

We must have lost our marbles.