I think he's correct, but why did you get a robot to film it?

Great thoughts, but why the horrible blue noise???

'There's value in human inspiration.'

this was an "just wow" talk for me, but you guys reallys messed it a bit up with your visual and audio overlay. the music would have been okay and enough.

what's with the annoying overlay?

Those 12 dislikes were AI

this guy is the man

Not only that, but we should be able to aventually combine our VR tech with roots to explore other planets POV

Neil deGrasse Tyson is the Carl Sagan of our time. The passion this man speaks with will always give me goosebumps.

Space is majestic AF

Behind every space robot there are a lot of humans. Human are just needed in space if the decisions need to be done in real time, or maybe because they have some better motor skills, for now.

That was Deep!

What's the name of the backing track/ song/ music!??? Can't get a long enough snippet to use an app

Why don't we value the engineers or the inventors of the robots then? Through their scientific contributions, they're paving the way so that we can one day send millions of people into space to colonize other planets.

There is Value in human inspiration

Really the biggest factor with sending a human is just the greater sense and pride we get from it. We're proud of the *scientists and engineers* who made the mars rover, we're proud of *Neil and Buzz*. It's a nice thought to think that our creative touch has marked mars but god the idea that someone with my flesh and blood who grew up in a house like me and breathed the same air as me and laughed at jokes and listened to music like me is walking on another planet just blows me away because I can imagine what that *feels* like to be there. I'm a math and physics major at a top university and a Putnam fellow and would love to go into academia, and we seemed to forget sometimes that scientists are human long before they are researchers. I'd leave everything behind: my family, my research, my love of mathematics, all the physics in the world cross my heart and hope to die just to walk on mars for a day just to *feel* that. I'm sure I'm not alone.

I'd really rather just hear him talk. Neil deGrasse Tyson is a brilliant dude. He doesn't need a shitty overlay, bland animation or googled images to get his point across.

If a robot had advanced AI I seriously doubt we'd add human frailties like loneliness and fear.

Neil Tyson is one of the scientist who inspired me to do science and mechanical engineering. He's very similar to Carl Sagan ideology wise.

Robots without a doubt they can cover more ground faster, more efficient, and can get us where we wanna be sooner.

What about the person that made the robot. I'd read a book about that person.

Can some tell me the name of the song. Its perfect.

Does anyone know the background music?

Very good.

Without robots will never be efficient in space.

Best speech ever

Such a robot would be able to upload itself and gain a new robotbody though.. essentially it would become a hivemind thing that would be glad to send spare parts out to gain a wider spectrum to navigate

Here we are, 6 years later. The argument for humans in deep space is getting weaker and weaker. 100 different types of robots for the cost of one human? Gimme the robots.

I don't think a robot would have found the Genesis rock Apollo 15 found.

love it

Neil's speach was great but I'll still have to downvote this video. Because of the unecessary effects - blue shattering and noise - I now have migraine. I quickly stopped looking and only listened as I realized it but I was already too late at that point. I have one question for you, Mashable: Why?

We also need to get a jump on Humans living in space as an evolution. - We can't evolve if we don't get involved. ;O)-

What do humans use to analyze things? Little handheld robots! Haha

I think to answer this question we first have to answer the age old questions. Is math related to science

So he says, if you're only interested in science, send a robot. But then he says, that you need humans for the science bit, since robots aren't advanced enough? So he's just blabbing nonsense like always?

What I'm hearing is this "Let's waste a few people in order to inspire more people to die in space!" Gee, that sounds very efficient, mr genius astrophysicist. I guess we're very overpopulated, so it does make sense if you're using really cold logic.

Analysis? Don't they just store the data or just send it? Who says that they have to depend on the human/robot on the spot to do it? Aren't they gonna send the information, whether it's raw data or an interpretation anyways? Why care if the human has a higher chance of making a better interpretation, you have plenty of time to interpret it once it reaches back our planet. Don't really agree with how he reasons stuff out in this video.

Why did they put effects on the video and his voice? So annoying

If you need me inspiration to explore space something is wrong with you.

Pitiful points being made by Neil! Was he not briefed on the topic? Terrible and quite disappointing for him. Carl would not be pleased!

Send a cyborg. Problem solved

I liked Pluto, that's why I don't like him

he always speaks as tho what he is saying is so deep and mind blowing and its really annoying honestly, it always just seems like he think hes really cool and it bothers me

Nothing you said is remotely interesting. Here are 5 reasons why. 1.) No scientific evidence, sources, comparisons or connections. 2.) Complete speculation, about as useful as asking a random guy if aliens exist. 3.) Video quality: I am that much less likely to listen to anything you have to say, because you lack a quality video. (Seriously, who thought filming it this way was a good idea?). 4.) No background or introduction. You didn't tell us anything about yourself which tells us you have no experience, understanding or knowledge of the subect your talking about. Leading back to my speculation point. Literally anything to connect yourself to the topic would have been useful: you took a class in robotics, you earned a degree in space engineering (if that's a thing), you read an article on google. Literally anything to make you worth listening to. 5.) Your not James Veitch.