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Someday, someone, or some robot, will find it and ship it back, for museum display.
by Animats 9mo ago
Someday, someone, or some robot, will find it and ship it back, for museum display.
- CobrastanJorji 9mo agoAssuming we have reached a point in time where it makes sense to do that, it may be that it makes more sense to put it in a museum on the moon.
- blitzar 9mo agoJust past the gift shop in the amusement park.
- pavel_lishin 9mo agoWe're whalers on the moon... we carry a harpoon...
- blitzar 9mo agoBut there ain't no whales so we tell tall tales and sing a whaling tune.
- alexey-salmin 9mo agoI hope for the same, but it's based on the assumption that space exploration will be human-driven. Unfortunately it's possible that it will be robot-driven instead and museums will stay on earth.
- CableNinja 9mo agoI seriously doubt we will stay on earth like that. Humans have always been explorers and pioneers. You can only look at something through a screen for so long before you get the itch that you cant scratch through a screen. Humans will inevitably leave this planet. Robots on other planets is a rough process. Most planets, lacking atmosphere, have dust that gets EVERYWHERE, and its really bad for mechanical, electrical operations. The moon has a static charge that causes the regolith powder to seep into the smallest cracks. Humanoid robots will not last long, and all other forms are just a single failure from uselessness. Until they can either self-repair, or repair others (meaning n+1 minimum robots sent), it will not be useful for long exploration. And, honestly, id be pretty worried to find robots that could self-repair or repair others. Thats just a small step away from self-replication, and that leads down other scary paths.
- Animats 9mo ago> Robots on other planets is a rough process. By now, a lot of machinery has operated on Luna and Mars. That seems to be a solvable problem. Venus, though... That's too hot. Last lander was in 1982 (USSR) and lasted about an hour and a half before overheating.
- masterlee_fn 8mo ago[dead]
- avmich 9mo agoWould we bring the landing stage of Apollo-11 to Earth by the same logic?
- perilunar 9mo agoPlease no — I hope that all these landers and probes are left in place. Ideally with an exclusion zone around them to keep the landscape pristine. (We don't want a bunch of tourists messing up the first footprints on the moon, for example.)