Chavez says capitalism may have ended life on Mars

Dunno, but I feel like this may have been taken out of context or something. He probably meant to pass that as some sort of anti-capitalism joke...?

If you do have the full transcript of what he said to show that it was out of context, I would be interested in seeing it.

Either way,I think we should probably prove that intelligent life existed on Marse long before we speculate on how it would have been destroyed.

I also have to point out this asinine comment:
"Chavez, who also holds capitalism responsible for many of the world's problems, warned that water supplies on Earth were drying up."
Such things happen all the time without human intervention. Many lakes and rivers have dried up long before man.

Also, the last theory I heard on how Mars has such a weak atmosphere and no liquid water is apparently because it's core froze. With the core frozen, it could no longer produce a magnetic field to protect the planet from solar radiation and the waves of solar winds slowly chipped away at the atmosphere and liquid water.