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A human controlled robot on the moon is much better at exploration than a human. Humans have to do things like eat and shit.

• waterlesscloud 17y ago
  If we'd had a human on Mars for the last 5 years, they would have covered many, many, many times as much territory as the robots have, and in far more detail. Yes, it would have been incredibly expensive, but it would have been infinitely better from a science perspective. Which is my point.
  • ricree 17y ago
    A human on mars could certainly have covered more territory than the robots did, but the expense would have been several orders of magnitude more. Had those billions been spent on robotic explorers, they would also have outperformed the relatively cheap robots that we actually have on the surface.
  • dantheman 17y ago
    For the same cost, would robots have provided more data? I bet they would have.
    • waterlesscloud 17y ago
      No. Robots are still very much special purpose, humans are still very much general purpose.
      • dantheman 17y ago
        But how many special purpose robots can you send up for the purposes that a human will do?