There is a part of me that’s just as amazed at the Phoenix Mars Lander as everybody else, that’s eager to discover what it can teach us about the red planet, and that joins in the wonder of look at what we can do! But I have to admit, deep down, there’s this other part of me that can’t help but wish, especially at the rate that our own planet is falling apart under our watch, that we were so much further by now.