Comedian/Musician Reggie Watts is in San Francisco this week for a couple performances at the the Outside Lands Festival this weekend. Before taking the stage in the Barbary Tent, Watts dropped in to the Exploratorium on Thursday to help the celebrate the Curiosity rover's successful landing on the surface of Mars. Of the red planet, Watts says: "I've always had dreams of going to Mars and I've always had dreams of not going to Mars as well."
Here are the Exploratorium's two delightfully geeky staffers introducing Reggie and his original song about "how super easy it is to get to Mars":
Watts, who apparently became enamored with the interactive science museum while on tour last year has also been named the Exploratorium's most recent Osher Fellow. During yesterday's event, he also took a moment to leave a message for Thomas Dolby's time capsule in Martian:
