I find it it unacceptable that at times you complain that not enough money is spent on your monomaniacal chicken-little obsession with the sky falling in, and then you take NASA and MESSENGER to task for not spending money on analytical science.

Space science is a broad field and will NOT be best pursued by pushing all the funds down a single narrow alley, be it Man-in-space, Man-on-the-Moon, Mars, NEO's, comets, or whatever. The MESSENGER team and other mainstream space scientists will, in due course, after proper scientific review write formal scientific papers about the impact history of Mercury and its implications for the solar system as a whole and our earth in particular.

this process takes time, cannot be rushed, and should not idly be criticised.

The most important attribute of a planetary scientist is patience. Please find some...