There are some things that humans do better than robots

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E.P. — 11/15/2008 5:42:30 PM (archived)

and some of those things are needed.

While I agree about the use of rovers instead of people for Mars right now, for research in low gravity and for development of the Moon manned tending will be necessary.

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Endeavour on its way. - ER - 11/15/2008 2:01:30 AM
- Pictures from the ground - Raoul - 11/16/2008 10:56:25 AM
- re: Endeavour on its way. - Marcia - 11/15/2008 8:53:26 PM
  - You're in Miami, right? - ER - 11/15/2008 9:07:04 PM
    - re: You're in Miami, right? - Marcia - 11/16/2008 3:19:02 PM
- Cool! I wish they'd gone ahead with the Vandenberg site. (n/t) - TB - 11/15/2008 4:21:50 AM
  - I remember watching a Vandenburg launch... - ER - 11/15/2008 4:36:47 AM
    - I see a launch now and then, but not like a Shuttle. - TB - 11/15/2008 4:47:09 AM
      - I saw Saturns taking off from Tampa, on the Florida West Coast. - ER - 11/15/2008 1:18:11 PM
      - What's the point of human spaceflight? (n/t) - zed - 11/15/2008 9:37:46 AM
        
        What's the point of a baby? - nick hoffman - 11/16/2008 12:32:50 PM
        
        re: What's the point of human spaceflight? - ER - 11/15/2008 12:57:28 PM
        
        There are some things that humans do better than robots - E.P. - 11/15/2008 5:42:30 PM
        
        Yes, but most of the things we HAVE to do can be done just as well by robots. - ER - 11/15/2008 6:38:35 PM
        
        Humans will go into space in a big way when they figure out how to make money at it. - TB - 11/16/2008 3:06:28 AM
        
        Growing biological components - zed - 11/16/2008 3:42:19 AM
        
        I think the technology needed to sustain life in space is the problem - zed - 11/16/2008 1:15:18 AM
- For our friends abroad... - ER - 11/15/2008 2:17:46 AM
  - Another home improvement mission - what science is being done on ISS? - Socrates II - 11/15/2008 3:22:41 PM
    - What science is being done with ISS? - E.P. - 11/15/2008 5:39:26 PM
      - Next to nothing. - ER - 11/15/2008 6:49:18 PM
        
        Sorry, this post was meant to respond to Soc II. (n/t) - ER - 11/15/2008 7:12:10 PM

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