Confirmed: Life on Mars.

[JustAGuy]

Methinks people in NASA need to start blowing the whistle. Rover problems, shuttle explosions, and what appears to be shoddy workmanship.

How the hell can they be doing shoddy work, when they have millions to spend on this crap? Even though their budget has been cut considerably, they still have lots of cash. I don't see other space agencies with this kind of 'grip'. They've got the top minds, the top money, and therefore the top equipment - how could they screw up seemingly all the time? I bet the science isn't where it's supposed to be.

As for the microbe stuff: does it really matter if Earth microbes infest Mars? We're just going to go there anyway. The goal is to colonize; it's not like we're going there just to visit. We go, we say, "aww, that's nice. Look at the red sky. That has got to go. Start un-freezing that water, Boys!" And then, a ridiculous amount of effort, money later, and maybe a couple of hundred years later, we've got ourselves a new planet.