I dunno what you wanted to see? AVP perhaps?

The fact that we're getting technology to a distant planet is a huge step in itself. Everything in small steps.

I'd also like to point out that dumping money into a poor nation may patch, but never fully cure the problem. Unless the current regimes change from a corrupt ruling lifestyle, they will never move ahead.

This is why YOU are not the scientist. Its not "just" dirt and a great view, its science. They are learning about ANOTHER PLANET and if we can take any resources from it. If something comes of it, that will help the ENTIRE WORLD and not just one portion of one country.....

just the idea of seeing what other planets look like from the actual floor is amazing !!! so no its not just some desert. It's more than that when you think pass the obvious.

If it were up to people like you, we'd all be under the assumption that the world was still flat. What happened to "go where no man has gone before"? The whole reason Curiosity was sent to Mars was to find if life ever existed and to study the planet's chemical elements and compounds etc. Do you expect them to find this stuff overnight given how huge Mars is and how far away it is? If you spread the cost out among all American citizens alone, it would add up to $7 per person.. which is not alot. Countries can still be saved.

You talk about curing cancer and alzheimer's. Maybe the answer to that lies on a different planet, but you are quick to rule out those missions without thinking what great things we can discover otherwise. Take off your tin foil hat for a few seconds.

u were expecting life or vegetation? wtf? you obviously dont know anything about the planets in our solar system lol. they already found bacteria from mars years ago, but with no magnetic field, very little ozone layer, the planet can't support terranean life. maybe subterranean is possible though