5 Reasons Going To Mars Is An AWESOME Idea

His mention of a gamma ray burst extinction wouldn't be mitigated by the colonization of another planet in our solar system and his dismissal of the contamination issue prior to finding extraterrestrial life is not at all justified. These "awesome" ideas are all mostly lame and have obvious counterarguments and alternative paths to the same result at lower cost which I'm not going to take the time to present. I suspect he's doing this video because of so many anthropocentric viewers of his previous video who need to live vicariously through human explorers and therefore prefer spam-in-a-can for space exploration when the most likely and most productive future of the human race is all about robotics and AI which, BTW, is the most likely type of advanced technology alien we will meet if we ever do.

The Dominant Life Form in the Cosmos Is Probably Superintelligent Robots

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/...he-cosmos-is-probably-superintelligent-robots

Why Alien Life Will Be Robotic
If life off Earth exists it has probably transitioned to machine intelligence

https://nautil.us/issue/29/scaling/why-alien-life-will-be-robotic

Electronic E.T.: Intelligent Aliens Are Likely Machines

https://www.space.com/34713-intelligent-aliens-machines-seti-search.html

It May Not Feel Like Anything To Be an Alien

https://cosmos.nautil.us/feature/72/it-may-not-feel-like-anything-to-be-an-alien

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