Way to fold like a cheap camera. Since you seem to have no idea what you're actual argument is, leave the science talk to the grown ups.

NASA is Space X's main customer, so this isn't exactly Taggart Transcontinental.

Unless you're going to actually make that compelling argument, why bring it up?

The MSL is much heavier than Spirit & Opportunity were. Mars has a very thin atmosphere, which makes landing heavy stuff a bummer. This was not a Rube Goldberg machine cooked up to amuse engineers.

We can put things in orbit, just not humans.

You were lucky to have caught the sound check, the actual show was ruined by the collective obnoxiousness of the crowd, the bored bar staff, and security radios going BRKRKRKRKRKRKRKKKKKTTTTT!

Think of it as a history of astronomy up to the late 70's. Don't worry, you wont come out of it with a perverted picture of the universe. Also, some of the episodes have a "Cosmos update" at the end.

Definitely worth watching. It's gratifying on so many levels. Just watch the first episode and you'll get a good idea of whether or not it's your thing.

I haven't kept my toothbrush in my bathroom for years. That ranks up there with putting your bath towel on the toilet while you shower.

You're plea for religious tolerance is commendable. But you can forgive people for being sensitive when this is the same argument that is being made to force ID into high school science (which is not to say that the author harbors those views).

Isn't the whole Krauss vs Albert debate about the definition of nothingness? Albert was working with a platonic ideal of nothingness, while Krauss was working with a definition of nothingness that was compatible with observation. Wasn't Pythagorean ridicule of Ionian observation considered a setback for knowledge?

It may not look like a skull, but it DOES look like a skull drawn by Tim Burton.