Actually, Chris
I never have attacked manned Mars missions before. Period, full stop, end of sentence. I merely stated that NASA needs to deal with the impact hazard first. It's just your peculiar and seriously warped vision that twisted that into an anti-manned Mars statement.
But I've now had a true change of heart: we should not spend dime one on manned Mars flight now. If you want to go try and convince Bill Gates to pay for it, feel free, just don't ask me for any money for it.
