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> The robot sent to explore it should look like a kangaroo What, sort of furry, beige colour, big feet, long tail, and a goofy looking offspring peering out fr
by zabzonk 5y ago
> The robot sent to explore it should look like a kangaroo
What, sort of furry, beige colour, big feet, long tail, and a goofy looking offspring peering out from a pouch? I fail to see how this will aid lunar exploration :)
- ncmncm 5y agoWho said anything about aiding exploration? Some of us want space probes that look like kangaroos. Why should a space probe look like not-a-kangaroo? But anyway a cave is likely to have a floor far too uneven for wheels. Another plausible configuration would be a crab or daddy-long-legs. Operating in the dark, a plutonium RTG radiating heat would seem to threaten to damage the contents of the cave we came to look at. Maybe it sets out solar panels, and reels out a wire as it goes into the dark. And perforce sleeps for two weeks out of each month.