thank God the mesage wasn't urgent,like telling him not to go to the theater ..if people knew there was a message why wait 150 years to confirm it. every 8th grader in the united states knows that fort sumpter was what started the civil. it'a little piece of trivia but mostly something i wouldn't go out yelling we found the message , we found the message. makes me feel like the twi-lightshow by rod sterling about how to serve man and the guy ran out screaming how to serve man is a cookbook . a mars cookbook which is why we should not get upset that we are spending way too much money trying if there is water on mars. even if there is who is going to take a sip