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The same could be said for space exploration. We spend a fortune accommodating humans.

• masklinn 3y ago
  The problem is that without embedded human smarts such exploration is very limited, novel / unexpected situations are hard to predict or react to, and the latency between earth-bound command posts and non-orbital remotes makes that unusable for anything beyond batch orders. While hardly trivial, remote control within earth atmosphere has much more reasonable latency, and thus applicability.
  • melling 3y ago
    Yeah, complete bullshit that we tell ourselves. https://www.space.com/4357-nobel-laureate-disses-nasa-manned-spaceflight.html https://www.space.com/4357-nobel-laureate-disses-nasa-manned...
• snickerbockers 3y ago
  Space exploration makes more sense because it's largely seen as a precursor to eventually establishing a colony in space, on the moon or on Mars. Whether that's actually viable is another discussion, but if NASA were to announce this is all just for the sake of curiosity and nobody's ever going to live in space then their funding will be gone in a week.