Nick says: "your honorary positions are unsalaried"

Barry: What does that have to do with anything about science? I'm sure your hokey White Mars website doesn't pay you much either does it?

Nick says: "Your colleagues aren't exactly of world class"

Barry: Depends whose work you think is relevant. Certainly your work with CO2 flows on Mars is laughable by most in the scientific community. When will you be taking down your website? December or January?

Nick: "Pershin has made some stupid public statements about the colour of Mars, based on fundamental misunderstanding of digital images"

Barry: You've made some stupid comments about CO2 being the cause of the tributaries on Mars. In fact, some NASA scientists have equated your work being as substantial as that of Richard Hoagland. White Mars? Mars Face. Not much difference.

Nick: "Levin has stuck unreasonably to his single theory for decades. The rest of his career and interests are genuinely interesting, but his insistence on Mars life is tragic, or perhaps comic."

Barry: Big difference between you and Levin is that you are a kiss ass, he is not. You suck up to the Mars Society amatuers on this website because they are the only ones who support your zanny concepts. Your brief stint in the planetary science field is over. You can't even decide whether you think there is life on Mars or not. One article you published in SpaceDaily lat spring said you thought life on Mars was impossible because of your unproven CO2 theories. Another recently said you support life on Mars as long as the microbes dwell in ice towers. Sounds like you are trying to play both sides of the fence to me. Better safe than sorry eh Nick?

Nick says: "Russell I don't know well enough to form a judgement, but his bio is more scientific, and less publicity-oriented. He may be the one good apple in the whole barrel of rotten ones..."

Barry says: I used to think you were an allright guy, but now I know you are just a typical media hound. Your theories are already hogwash to most in the scientific community so you come here to this bbs to rally support for it. Pitiful really.

ava gooday

BD