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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous

Its not dogma silly, its science like Bill Nye yo! What NASA is looking for on Mars is not necessarily evidence of existing life, but rather, evidence of previously existing life.

it's dogma in the sense that nobody knows what the fuck is there but you already declare the results of the experiment. science doesn't work that way. yes there is no magnetic field and there is no life "just like on earth" but if there is anything interesting it's worth exploring. but exploration and research are the opposite of prophecy. what's in that soil? we don't know until we know.

unlike r. schunk i don't read malice in your rhetoric but rather a religious bend-- call it "professional deformation" as we do in the romance languages-- here's teh english language equivalent i think: "if your only tool is a hammer every problem looks like a nail". you are aware of your own bias, right?

anyway, on the subject of priorities-- we already have the technology and produce enough food to feed everyone, and, the problem seems to be one of politics and social organization--- i doubt any scientist can fix a politician. but you have a point of sorts. "the war on hunger" is going worse than "the war on drugs"-- again a sociopolitical not scientific problem.