Ah,
This is FE investigations. I can take any side I like. Being as this thread is about the supposed water on Mars, I can either choose to moan and wail about NASA et al being a bunch of liars (which they are), or I can for the sake of the debate accept the assumption and then debate directly about the actual pros and cons of going to Mars, should is be possible.
Being as a I can moan and wail in the other FE boards, I can have a different kind of conversation if I just swallow the lie and progress the conversation from there ... which I chose to do for the sake of interesting debate. This thread isn't about Earth's shape, its about going to Mars to exploit its resources ... and I have a thing or two to say about that as well.
This new flexibility is why we added this board. You can understand that after several years of discussing earth's shape, its nice to be able to discuss other things not directly related.