<story><title>Water seems to flow freely on Mars</title><url>http://www.nature.com/news/water-seems-to-flow-freely-on-mars-1.14343?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drcode</author><text>I know this is an unpopular opinion here but:&lt;p&gt;NASA needs to stop milking the &amp;quot;water on mars&amp;quot; thing. Every few months it seems their PR department lazily says to themselves &amp;quot;Hey! let&amp;#x27;s do another water on mars story!&amp;quot; (I know, NASA doesn&amp;#x27;t do PR and these are just completely objective releases of scientific papers... believe what you will.)&lt;p&gt;I hope within my lifetime we have some disruption in this space and NASA stops constantly taking blatant advantage of its near monopoly on space exploration.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Havoc</author><text>&amp;gt;NASA needs to stop milking the &amp;quot;water on mars&amp;quot; thing.&lt;p&gt;Perhaps. I&amp;#x27;m inclined to cut NASA some slack though - they are in a tricky catch 22 position: To get spectacular results they need funding and to get funding they need spectacular results. So I&amp;#x27;m all for them milking whatever seems viable.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;its near monopoly on space exploration.&lt;p&gt;When it comes to space exploration I tend to agree with Nike &amp;amp; their slogan. I really don&amp;#x27;t care whether the US or the Chinese does it as long as someone acts. Same thing with costs...humanity as a whole needs to get off this rock to have any hope of long term survival. If it takes X billion USD...who cares? Raise some notional debt ceiling if you must...</text></comment>
<story><title>Water seems to flow freely on Mars</title><url>http://www.nature.com/news/water-seems-to-flow-freely-on-mars-1.14343?</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drcode</author><text>I know this is an unpopular opinion here but:&lt;p&gt;NASA needs to stop milking the &amp;quot;water on mars&amp;quot; thing. Every few months it seems their PR department lazily says to themselves &amp;quot;Hey! let&amp;#x27;s do another water on mars story!&amp;quot; (I know, NASA doesn&amp;#x27;t do PR and these are just completely objective releases of scientific papers... believe what you will.)&lt;p&gt;I hope within my lifetime we have some disruption in this space and NASA stops constantly taking blatant advantage of its near monopoly on space exploration.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kamakazizuru</author><text>I think they put out regular press releases of anything interesting they find. HN just has a taste for certain types of articles is all..</text></comment>