Dr. Robert Zubrin talks Mars - SpacePod 2010.06.08

At the 2010 International Space Development Conference we had a chance to catch up with Dr. Robert Zubrin and chat about Mars for a bit. His never-waning passion for putting human explorers on Mars is a bit infectious. ; With the recent success of the SpaceX Falcon 9 maiden launch and hopefully soon a Falcon 9 Heavy launch, maybe Dr. Zubrin's dreams of going to Mars within, well, some day are actually possible? It's not the technology we lack, but rather the will to go. So lets get excited about moving past Low Earth Orbit and set our sites on a destination. While personally I don't care if it is Mars, Enceladus, the Moon or some crazy asteroid there is something to be said about having a unified voice. Maybe it's time that we as a space community stood up and said, "Hey World, we're going to Mars!"

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[edshift]

1:30 into this video and I'm shouting at my monitor.

How many People die in wars?

Give an equal amount voluntarily in risk to the space program.

Explorers die. But at least their death is worthwhile. Current wars are not worthwhile except financially (for Haliburton etc.)

For fuck's sake let's get off planet.

We can do it so why are we not doing it.????

Human race right now = Epic Fail.

This guy talks so much sense.

[lumaix]

build a statue of zubrin on mars

[AgrivatedKillah]

This man is a hero.

[MrQueenie]

This guy is telling the god damn truth. We have the technology, yet we wait and waste our money on warfare when we could advance the human race for christs sake.

[AlphahawkA25]

the Mars Rising approach was like a mix breed of the Mars Direct plan and the 90-day report.

we can say one good thing about that report, and that is that not only can it get humans to mars, but it also can get humans to saturn, jupiter, out into space, and it also enlarges the international space station. so maybe when designing a mission to mars, you can also think ahead to the future, and design a system that can easily be modified to fit with other missions

[Eagle1Division2]

@edshift Our voluntary military kills murderers to save human lives...

[Andreas0Elf]

Well said.

[Benes911]

I think Dr Robert Zubrin comes across as a close contender to Christopher Hitchens' place as "person you'd most hate to argue with".

[georgel19841]

@Mandragara can you see an''?'' ,there, ??? NO soo is that a question ? i repeat :NO

[Mandragara]

@georgel19841 Well then I cannot answer it for you!