Comment Man vs. robots (Score 1) 1096
I believe he's saying the past human explorations had another goal - a political one - and that was good enough for them to go out into space.
If we never take the risk to explore different ways of doing things, we might still be living in caves.
Human space exploration too obsolete? We haven't even done much with it. Robots might do their jobs better in harsh space environemnts but it is more special to get a first-hand account of actually being in space. People care more about things involving...surpise PEOPLE than robots. Remember what happened this January. In any given day in space news, two Mars rover landings would've made headlines but Bush's plan stole the thunder when he mentioned manned missions.
Look at that, manned missions that wouldn't exist for at least 10 MORE YEARS made bigger news than a few robots that are ALREADY in space. That tells us something on where our interests are.
If we never take the risk to explore different ways of doing things, we might still be living in caves.
Human space exploration too obsolete? We haven't even done much with it. Robots might do their jobs better in harsh space environemnts but it is more special to get a first-hand account of actually being in space. People care more about things involving...surpise PEOPLE than robots. Remember what happened this January. In any given day in space news, two Mars rover landings would've made headlines but Bush's plan stole the thunder when he mentioned manned missions.
Look at that, manned missions that wouldn't exist for at least 10 MORE YEARS made bigger news than a few robots that are ALREADY in space. That tells us something on where our interests are.
