brainburger

Currently NASA expends considerable effort to avoid sending anything alive to Mars, on its probes, to comply with a 1967 UN treaty.

http://planetaryprotection.nasa.gov/overview

Will your trial be exempt from these restrictions? How can you guarantee that the Martian environment won't be contaiminated?

Jim Hanks, Tom's brother.

You don't see that said very much. Still, knowing about it is a long way from being able to do something. Thanks.

Anyone reading this and wondering, should check out the Pete and Dud dialogues, and the Derek and Clive ones, which are not politically correct but often very funny.

Oh and the original Bedazzled movie (1967)

It's not as though it's vacuum cleaners!