Rocky Mountain Mars Society - Outside The Box

I went on Monday evening to the quarterly meeting of the RMMS - Rocky Mountain Mars Society. The meeting took place at the Environmental Design building at CU.
Discussion topics were the Augustine report and water on Mars. Though I've recently read about these, this was very much outside the box for me. At the same time this was interesting to be involved in a discussion about such issues that are also being discussed at the highest levels of this country and about an entire domain which could have an amazing decade or a complete wash depending on how the cards (i.e. decisions and money at the presidential level) are dealt by our government.