<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by metamars</i>
<br />It seems metaresearch.org could use some volunteer effort, and I can't help wondering if natural sources of volunteers have not even been approached.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">If you learn of a way we can reach their members without going through the organization executives, do speak up. Unfortunately for us, the organization founders chose to ally with JPL (or perhaps are encouraged to do so by financial contributions from JPL). That means they exclude serious consideration of most Mars anomalies from their meetings. Members of SPSR have tried and failed to get them to be open-minded about this.
I was initially a member and supporter. When I saw that, despite some patronixing tolerance of harmless dreams of future explorers on Mars, they were being guided by the JPL agenda (priority to robotic missions now because manned missions are too dangerous and expensive), I stopped my membership and support because I do not see their agenda as in the public interest. I'd love to hear that the situation was cureable. But as things stand, I see the Mars Society as little more than an impotent front organization that JPL uses to justify its budget by being able to show how much public interest there is in Mars. -|Tom|-
