Martian soil may reveal findings that are "Earth shattering"

[That Sprite]

[QUOTE=Van-man;38531112]No need to word it nicely.
They prefer watching stupid shit like Jersey Shore over actually learning something useful or making groundbreaking discoveries that could change the future of human kind for the better.[/QUOTE]

Easy Solution: Fuel the rockets with the cast of Jersey Shore. Benefit society, the space programs, and get more interest all at the same time!

[Sobek-]

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;38537620]Burn it in what? There's basically no free oxygen in its anyways uselessly thin atmosphere.[/QUOTE]

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[B]LOOK INTO MY EYES WHEN I SAY THIS WE WILL MAKE THE AIR[/B]

What was it I read recently about the team thinking they'd found something but it was just some false methane samples or some nonsense?

[samframpton]

[QUOTE=ChristopherB;38531808]That doesn't answer my question though: why does NASA need to say [I]anything[/I] at this point?

Unless I've missed something, the American public, scientifically literate or not, isn't expecting weekly breakthroughs.

It seems to me that they've hurt the potential publicity of their success by hinting at a grand discovery. If their findings turn out to be anything less than amazing, people will be disappointed.[/QUOTE]

Scientists don't care, any discovery they make will have the same impact to the scientific community regardless of what the public think, an interviewer probably just asked him if anything interesting happened, and he told the truth, making sure to mention no peer-reviewed discovery had actually been made.