<s>[INST] So, you want to go to Mars -- I mean, the way they went to Mount Everest, because it's there. [/INST] No, no, I think in the case of the sort of flippant remark by Hillary was -- it's sort of a noteworthy achievement to have climbed the highest mountain on earth and all that unintelligible in the same way people want to break records of various kinds around the world, sailing journeys and that sort of thing.
But this is not in that category, this is really much thicker, deeper philosophical underpinings better financed to why I think it's important to extend life beyond earth.
It goes to the nature of importance. How do you decide that one thing is important versus another. And the layers of history -- I guess a good way to distinguish whether something is important or not.
If you look at the history of the earth upon a geological grand scale -- what are the really important milestones in the history of life itself. Forget about the parochial concerns of humanity.
Then you say, well, certainly there was the advent of single cell life, multi cellular life, plants versus animals </s>