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Plus, your payload needs to be gun compatible. Not gonna put people in there.
by gridspy 2y ago
Plus, your payload needs to be gun compatible. Not gonna put people in there.
- WalterBright 2y agoWell, in WW2 we did manage to put working radar in artillery shells.
- itishappy 2y agoWith vacuum tubes, no less!
- 7e 2y agoSpace is for robots.
- gridspy 2y agoWhile mass to orbit costs as much as it does now, sure. However later on it's gonna be great to have humans closer to the working robots to reduce the round-trip latency. They could also perform tasks robots are not suited for. Consider operators living on Mars and operating drones near their habitat each day. It would be like modern day drone operators and robot assisted surgery. Like remote operators of mega-trucks today. Those robots could interact with the operators - driving into a "garage" that can be pressurized for maintenance, upgrades or science. StarShip promises to reduce the cost of mass to orbit, making larger and more complex scientific, industrial and habitat options feasible.