Love it or hate it, it's another Symphony of Science video

These do seem to be a bit polarizing, with a strong I-hate-autotuning camp…I rather like most of them, although this particular example is a bit weak — autotuning doesn't help much with long passages of tech talk, and this one has it.

It doesn't help that I'm not that keen on sending manned missions to Mars.

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