Greetings Earthlings,

We on the Red Planet enjoy our privacy. We do not wish to have you pointing your telescopes at us. As we are a very old race, our science is vastly superior to yours and we have our own telescopes which will even show us microbes on your planet. The sights that we see when we look at earth are not very pleasant and tend to make us puke out of all 36 of our mouths symultaneously (we do however find the blue, half liquid, half gaseous beings of Venus quite captivating).

Recent research has enabled us to design a device that can completely erase the male and female genitalia of you earthings and when we get to the the closest point we will even have enough power to completely nullify those of the creature designated "catspaw49".

Therefore, puny earthlings, you should divert your energies to sorting out your domestic affairs, rather than spying on your intellectual superiors.