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Why Alien Life Will Be Robotic
- tfandango 11y agoThis seems obvious to me. Humans are not very durable. Most of the complexity of space travel is derived from trying to keep squishy fragile humans alive, and even then they die of old age before they can get anywhere outside the local system anyway. We already know sending robots is much easier, cheaper, and sustainable. A sufficiently advanced machine and software could repair/improve have no concerns about an 1000 year trip.
- swagv 11y agoI'm easily convinced by the premise