Comment Re:Why do we do these things? (Score 1) 109
Now is the time to embrace the fact that, like manufacturing, information processing, transport, medicine , the future for space travel lies not in the hands of astronauts/taikonauts/cosmonauts but in the grip of machines.
And what does that "fact" have to do with manned space flight? We didn't actually stop doing anything of those things just because we have machines to help us. In particular, did you stop traveling just because that is in the "grip" of machines?