In Mark's defense Podfish (something I rarely essay these days) he was quoting a private communication from some unamed source. They're not his own words. Allegedly.... (I keed, I keed!!)
And in your defense, you did write "his own post" which is not definitive about authorship but I read as implying it was written by M.W.E. aka Iolchan.



in my post, do you?
Great response.

Cultivation of our species on another planet is not an option either. Cleaning up the mess that's been made on Earth, is the only science we need to be spending money on. 



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