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> A human can collect more specimens in a day than ALL of the rovers have to date. So could a better rover and rovers are getting better quickly. And you could
by Steko 8y ago
> A human can collect more specimens in a day than ALL of the rovers have to date.
So could a better rover and rovers are getting better quickly. And you could send hundreds of rovers for the cost of a manned mission.
- rory096 8y agoCuriosity cost $2.5 billion. The next generation rover, Mars 2020, is based on the same design. Where is this technological leap in rover technology?
- Steko 8y ago> Where is this technological leap Umm Moore's Law? Curiosity was a big leap from Opportunity and Mars 2020, while built on the same platform, has a laundry list of upgrades. Meanwhile, a manned mission is likely to be a trillion dollar project and even if they come in at half a trillion, that's still literally hundreds of $2 billion rovers.
- mlindner 8y agoWhere's your data to back up that a manned mission would be a trillion dollars? You can't just throw out random numbers and then use the random numbers you guessed at as a reason to not do something.