Gimli gets it, II

John Rhys-Davies on The Science Channel:

We should go to Mars because we need to stretch ourselves. We need constantly to find interesting answers to the really big questions. Going to Mars also would give us a slightly bigger survival footprint. I mean, one good comet, or one good meteorite hit, could end life as we know it here.

The video clip was recorded at a meeting of the Planetary Society where members watched the landing and initial pictures returned by Spirit, the latest Mars rover.