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Yawn.. robots are boring. Edit: Look. Robots are not boring. Ok. But the fact of the matter, is that they just don’t excite us the same way as sending a human
by blackrock 6y ago
Yawn.. robots are boring.
Edit: Look. Robots are not boring. Ok.
But the fact of the matter, is that they just don’t excite us the same way as sending a human to explore it ourselves.
- jHackenthal 6y agoThere’s no fun like human disaster
- SkyMarshal 6y ago>But the fact of the matter, is that they just don’t excite us the same way as sending a human to explore it ourselves. Yeah, I don't think sending humans excites enough people anymore to generate the broad political support required for doing that. Over the past ~20yrs, America has cannibalized our middle class to enrich the 1%. Expensive, manned Mars missions are an absurd luxury to the many who can't afford healthcare, whose small business has gone bankrupt due to COVID, or has to wait in food lines to feed their family. It's quite possibly the case now that manned Mars missions will have to be handled by the private sector, which as someone above commented, is already working towards that.