It’s not like citizenship you don’t get to be a planet just because your mom is.

Research and fact checking is what separates journalists from hacks.
“Journalist” implies factual information, not science fiction. If someone writes a “news” story about the magic land of Xanth because they can’t tell the difference between a Piers Anthony novel and a scientific study it’s not Piers Anthony’s fault for being too “tricky”.

Woo, woo, chugga, chugga, choo, choo

I am sure that they have, but there’s a lot more to it than just that. They have to consider long term maintenance, safety, and availability of parts.

Water is known and well established, you can buy a lot of stuff right off the shelf and we know it’s short and long term dangers. Everything else gets expensive and unknown very quickly.

Also an accurate description of the 2 hours immediately following my consuming taco bell.