Still :)

There's water on Mars and Mercury.

One of the things I like about the world sometimes is how things just keep going on, ignoring the general population. They've just stayed in their little bubble, building really clever, awesome little machines to handle what they want while no one else cared, and then they get this. It's the same for a lot of things - the biotech industry is progressing steadily. They know how to insert genes at specific locations and they're all quietly shifting over to that technique, which is cheaper and more effective and means it just became cost-effective for all sorts of new things.

On TV a few days back there was something about storks where people had set up feeding stations for them, and were going out to find ones that collapsed from dehydration. And the voiceover talked about how other wildlife researchers were saying that the storks were naturally supposed to be underweight when they migrated, and that it's not that they can't find food it's that they stop eating, and how this was just normal, and I was so happy to see that they were just ignoring all that. They changed to a sanctuary where people were throwing the birds food and you can see them gorging before they continued their flight. That's what we have to do, and it's what people are just quietly doing while the established rules are saying it's wrong.

Now isn't a time for conservatism and lockstep. It's a time to try new things, throw everything out there and see what works.

Forget Mars, let's go to Mercury.