The Filthiest Creatures in the Solar System

Apparently NASA and the ESA aren't taking emails. During the Mars mayhem of last year, when everyone with access to a computer was downloading the enormous jpeg image depicting the most recent photo of the red planet, I sent the following email to NASA to express my genuine concern on the topic of solar exploration:

"Hi,

Although I can't recall the status of the exploration of Jupiter's moon; Europa, I'm concerned about how we (humans) might be overstepping the bounds of our technological abilities out of sheer haste for knowledge. The details of the mission, from what I understand, involve us melting a probe through the supposed crust of ice, in hopes of entering a liquid sea in search of life. This does not by any means sound haphazard by today's technology, but I'm convinced we may see it someday as a terrible mistake, even a galactic crime. Polluting a world which has potential for life, with such a foreign element as heat, is not in our best interest, regardless of how excited we are by the possibility. I frankly, cannot wait for the day we can view truly foreign life, but we must do so with the same respect and gentleness that foreign explorers of our own world have taken (thus far). Can you imagine a neighbor of ours, prying open our atmosphere with a distant relative of nuclear energy, just to permeate our world's skin and sink a lifeless probe with no intent of being an ambassador, to wash up onto our shores? Aside from the potent terror such an event would unleash, we must also think of the contamination this would entail.

Thanks for putting my tax dollars to great use with such a beautiful website and an even more impressive program.

Sincerely,
Jonathan Braden"

There has been no response to date, not even a "thanks for contacting NASA you Treky virgin!", and am beginning to wonder just how well those tax dollars really are spent. Like any other interested human, I've been keeping up with the ESA's probe of Saturn's moon - Titan, which I have equally strong concerns for. While our little robot is spinning around taking pictures for the folks 'back home', keeping us civilians excited enough as to not complain about the money being spent on such endeavors, it is inevitably creating tiny amounts of heat; and energy of very foreign origins on the balmy minus 292 Fahrenheit surface of Titan. Suddenly (in the last 46 years) our planet has become a malignancy to foreign 'eyes'. I'm not suggesting we pussyfoot it around the Universe, but we need to change our ways and stop sending these 700 lbs fat bastards to whatever place we think we might see something cool (no pun intended).