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Re:Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now by sixbrx on Tuesday November 20, 2012 @01:38PM (#4810460)
I agree, big news to most people from mars would be the discovery of non-microbial life or a big ass monolith with strange writing on it. Big news to a scientist is that some rock formation shows evidence that there probably was water on the planet in the distant past.
Re:Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now by richardjordan on Tuesday November 20, 2012 @05:44PM (#4811778)
Right. By making this fuss on NPR they encourage pseudo-scientific predictions by laypersons of what this big discover is, that are almost always fantastical and far in excess of anything that is really likely to be discovered by such a mission. This mis-setting of expectations then undermines the actual discovery, particularly as the overall level of scientific ignorance in the media is pathetically high.