Dr. Robert Zubrin with a brilliant answer to "Why Should We Go To Mars?"

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters repeatedly link it as the best concise answer to the question of why go to Mars when problems remain on Earth.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Jamin Gray

Topic

mars exploration

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2016–2021

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Yep. There's a great video of Dr. Robert Zubrin (author of "The Case For Mars") answering the why question of going to Mars: [VIDEO] One of his points is the effect that space exploration has on kids. It excites them. It makes them want to …

• The person I responded to, in the part that I quoted, brought up people without electricity and plumbing as a contrast to spending efforts on exploration. It looks like an either/or to me. > People are simply arguing against spending more on it when we …

• Robert Zubrin has what I consider a great, comprehensive answer to why we should go to Mars. But ultimately it generally applies to all space exploration. [VIDEO]