Snow Detected On Mars

Our economy may be in the toilet, but darn it, we have the weather channel on Mars. Today it was cold with a smattering of snow flurries on the Martian frontier. Yes, they really did detect snow on Mars. Time to break out the whip cream and wild cherry Kool-Aid and have a party. Maybe we can get congress to declare a national Mars snow day to boot. It would seem that the more excuses that we have to keep congress out of session, the safer our country and the economy tends to be. In any case, the news on Mars is far more exciting anyway.

Now that we know that there is evidence of water on Mars, I just want to know when I can pack my bags for a trip. It would be nice to get away from Earth for a while and take a vacation. They always made it look so easy to do that in Star Trek. Beam me up, Scottie! I wonder how quickly I would be tossing my cookies after lift off? And is the water there cleaner than the water in New York or Chicago? I mean, think of all the places the water on this planet has been. Do you really want to stick it in your mouth? If I didn’t have a filter on my faucet, I would be totally grossed out. There is just something about recycled city tap water that has that suspicious chemical taste to it.

Although I doubt I will ever get to see the Martian landscape up close and in person, it would be nice to at least get to see a manned mission to Mars in my lifetime. I’m a huge believer in space exploration, because I think that it is the answer to most of our global problems. I mean, just think how nice it would be to pack all our political leaders into a shuttle and send them off to Mars so that we could all start over and do it right this time? Just think of how much that would help the state of affairs on our little planet. I think there is a missing piece to the space program though. When NASA sends probes to places like Mars, they should contract with companies to get more private funding. I mean, the Cassini probe was a nice waste of a great commercial opportunity. They should have called it the Pepsi probe or the McDonalds mission. Then our kids could get more interesting toys in their Happy Meals. Thus encouraging a new generation of young people to support the space program and help us get the heck off this crazy rock.