yup, like I said, it's all gone. but I'm glad it was decided that redirecting part of my paycheck into that of engineers who make a living sending robots to a dead rock was a good idea.
Adapting to land, surviving new climates, expanding worldwide helped establish global logistics that give you the lithium-ion batteries, the sandy processors, the oversea cables that allow blancheneige to watch Disney cartoons on demand.
It so happens that the story doesn't end with just planetary Internet communications.
...so you are praising CERN for accidentally inventing WWW, and at the same time blaming NASA for not (yet) producing a tangible consumer technology, from a Martian probe that literally just landed?