Yeah, it's really silly, but I've not heard it before.
Here was the question:
"How is it that 30 years ago we could do a soft touchdown on the Moon, but to land on Mars, they needed to wrap the craft in balloons?"
It went on to say that it seems like the balloon thing was a much better idea, and that there was no reason that people couldn;t survive a landing like the Mars Rovers did.
I didn't say it was good, just new.
