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The life of a human being can be evaluated in terms of how many people they've interacted with, the influence they've had on those peoples' lives, and the lasti
by manicdee 8y ago
The life of a human being can be evaluated in terms of how many people they've interacted with, the influence they've had on those peoples' lives, and the lasting memories that people carry with them once that human has gone.
It is quite possible to apply the same metrics to "a robot" (which is actually an entire science program at JPL), and see that this program has affected the lives of many more people than most humans ever will. There are people whose entire careers have been based on this program, and the community of technicians, scientists, engineers, administrators etc around the robot is just as real as the community around any person.
If this robot ceases functioning, the entire project stops, careers are ended, and a community is fractured. To this community the robot is just as important as any human.
Your lame attempt at concern trolling shows very little respect for the community involved in this project.
- jacobreg 8y agoNot to mention that far more than a lifetime has been collectively invested in it. Given its budget of $400M, and assuming an engineer costs roughly $1,000/day, we have about 1000 people-years invested in this project.
- meric 8y agoA modern day pyramid: monumental sacrifice and sights to behold.
- interfixus 8y agoNot to mention the rest of us. The razor sharp images from the twin rovers have been a constant source of awe and wonder for the last fifteen years. For me, these almost snapshots really helped establish Mars as a place, as somehwere, just like anywhere else. Thank you, America. One of your nicer cultural exports.
- ibdf 8y agoHow is this trolling? Put in to perspective, I'm not diminishing the work accomplished, I'm simply criticizing the comparison. Would you do such comparison if it was towards a person you know? "Oh, your brother is in a coma? How sad, it's just like when Mar's rover went through that sand storm.. .don't worry it he will wake up any moment".