BOOM ROASTED, its a blog and an enjoyable one at that. I enjoy the snarky tone of it. Seriously, could you be any more of a whiny little girl? Go find something else to bitch about…

My comparison with the laboratory setting and the modern rover is set in the context of change over time. Reread that section. You’lll see I’m comparing the present to some unspecified point in the past when you could not do what they are doing now.

Funny that the number of words of complaining from you is approaching the length of the blog post that you did not read very carefully! It’s almost like you were looking down your nose at me or something.

NASA has not overhyped anything; read their press reports. Unless we think that every word that comes out of every NASA employee represents NASA, which would require that NASA control what their employees say very carefully. I would prefer not to have it that way. Finally, again, I”m not taking about the “average person.” I’m talking about the scientists and science writers, a subset of whom, I think, are wrong on this.

This makes very little sense. We can either perform these experiments on a machine the size of the rover or we cant. Explain to me why it is only possible on Mars. Are you saying if I drove Curiosity into my back yard and performed sample testing on some random patch of dirt, nothing would happen? i would need to find myself thousands of feet of lab space and teams of guys? No.

We made an advancement. Kick Ass. It’s not the average persons fault that NASA over hypes things and most physicists are too self absorbed to explain it to people.

I read your blog regularly and seems lately you have had this very disdainful tone. It has made it hard to read. If you expect people to share in your joy you should try to educate rather than insult. The scientific community of the past ten years has become rather good at looking down its nose at people and you’re adding to the problem.

Then, after you’ve been thinking for a moment, I do have a question for you that you might try to answer if you’ve got anything left: Do you think it is not amazingly impressive that they ran this pile of dirt to the ground, as it were? Because if you don’t …..

wow. You’re pathetic

Hearing the answers directly from the investigators is great. The detail of their explanations is often missing from articles based on them.