I second that, but we can't send nuclear weapons into the air for fear that they might malfunction and send lots of radiation into the earth (which is why the 'send nuclear waste into the sun' plan isn't good).

I support the mission to mars, but I find their methods oddly stupid. Remember way way back in the day when they tried to drop a probe through the polar ice caps (of course you don't)? Well, both my brother and I knew it would fail, and it did, just like we predicted.

Just land a ^@!(*ing shuttle on the surface just like an airplane would land. Granted you would have to fly a great deal of time to conquer the gravitational pull, but sheesh....

Ah forget it.