Who cares about anything on Mars. We should not be spending dime one on manned Mars flight now. Why should we? Not only have we not handled the impact hazard, Antartica has more resources than Mars and its a whole lot closer to home. How much oil is there on Mars, and is there any way to get it here?

You know, I've never done this before, but after reading Z's comment on the station going round in circles, the same stunt Tumlinson has pulled, both tyring to promote manned Mars flght, I have decided that a good technique for getting the CAPS message out is to go into a full blown attack on manned Mars flight now. The technique has worked for Zubrin and Tumlinson

(Of course, that's not to say the manned flight to Mars might be good someday in the future, but for now, given you Mars nuts reactions' to the very idea of any money being spent on impact prevention, let's see how this works. I'm really tired of dealing with your disfunctions, and I'm pretty sure that most people have the ability to read and understand English. This should be fun.)