Barry, at about 1 AM last night I tried to post a message here and failed...

My assumption was not that Robert was trying to block me from posting only some setting had changed that caused a bug that effected JavaScript or some such thing.

I sent an email to Robert and yes it was something on that order...

Anyway on to my reply to your post...

That article was written on the day we talked about helping fund the scope. Colin couldn't have known about the plan but thru the reporter he was talking to...have you ever been interviewed? Reporters want "meat" I don't think this reporter would have given the idea in the best light. What would you say if someone sprung an unknown on you during an interview? Colin's off hand remake is just that. He hadn't time to have any of his colleague in Toronto tell him of our interest. So you take an off hand remark as proof and you don't think thru the process or the timeline...

A few days after returning to Britain Bo Maxwell did talk to Colin and arranged the funding... Beagle II was underfunded. Are you trying to tell me Colin Pillinger would refuse money from his friends? You called me a liar. Please, retract that statement!

--Chris Vancil