Mars has WHAT?

Recently I read about NASA's celebration of gritty evidence that Mars once had enough water to support life and I am again tired, seeing the word 'ONCE HAD". It spawned more questions then answers.

So if there really was water, where's the water now? When did it disappear? Are there any fossils of living creatures, or even microbes?

It is just a hypothetical situation! Mars represent simply what is out of whack in American science and exploration!

So what if there is water up there? Will it grow more food on earth or cure a disease? What difference does it make to anyone 's life? This doesn't even broaden our horizons!

Earth's oceans have been barely explored. New potential marine sources of energy and medicine, as well as knowledge about climate and origins of life on Earth 4 billion years ago remain largely unexamined. AND now $477 billion has been spent on a project, looking for water on another planet, when people in some places on earth are dying everyday because of drought? It just does not make any sense to me.

Real oceans need scientific attention more than the dried-up remnants on Mars. This is because it is affecting us directly. Most of the seas' big fish -- tuna, sharks and swordfish -- have been depleted. Half of the coral reefs are dead or dying. Around the world, runoff pollution has created more than 50 "dead zones" in coastal waters. Sea levels are rising, and the oceans' role in the planet's changing climate is poorly known. And when it seems w have better maps of Mars than our own ocean floor. That's just not right.