The Tom Woods Show, episode 712.

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Hey everybody, Tom Woods here talking about Mars today.

Not only the exploration, but the possible settlement of Mars. You do find people

advocating this, so I thought I would talk to one of them about it. And the person I've chosen is

Dr. Robert Zubrin, who is the founder and president of the Mars Society, which you can visit

at marssociety.org. He's the author of many books, the one that's most

relevant to our conversation today, is the case for Mars, the plan to settle the red planet

and why we must. Dr. Zubran holds a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the University of

Washington, and he holds other degrees in aeronautics and astronautics and mathematics.

Dr. Zubran, welcome back to the show.

Thanks for having me.

I don't remember how many episodes ago, many, many, many episodes ago in the past that I had you on, but we got to discuss Mars only toward the end of the episode,

and I had people begging me to bring you back on to finish that conversation. So I'm afraid

I am going to have to ask you a few things you've been asked a million times before. I like to

avoid that on the show, but it's sort of unavoidable. The first question that you probably

get is why? Why Mars? It seems not like the most

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