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What's the point of being a human walking around the moon? If you can do what you need to do with a robot it's a much safer and less expensive option. Much of t
by TallGuyShort 13y ago
What's the point of being a human walking around the moon? If you can do what you need to do with a robot it's a much safer and less expensive option. Much of the reason for sending humans to the moon was as a politically motivated show of technological superiority. Sending a robot to collect soil samples, perform a experiments, and then rocket the results back to Earth was the approach preferred by many of the engineers and scientists working on Apollo. Sending men who would "fly" the spacecraft was a less scientific decision.
- a3n 13y ago"What's the point of being a human walking around the moon?" The exact same thing as you walking around your neighborhood. Why not just send a little RC car with a camera? We exist in the universe, and it' as large or small as we make it. I like big.
- throwaway_yy2Di 13y agoThey should have sent a poet... then we'd have one poet less.
- a3n 13y agoReally? We have too many poets?
- ehutch79 13y agoBecause at this point in time, walking around in another gravity well is kind of bad-ass. If all you want is soil samples, definitely send the robot. But if you want to be bad-ass, send some humans.
- tunap 13y ago"What's the point of being a human walking around the moon?" "Much of the reason for sending humans to the moon was as a politically motivated show of technological superiority." Haha, you answered your own question. Sending a "probe" would not one-up China's Jade Rabbit. Frankly, I welcome another "Race" rather than another "War On...". China is ramping up and the US cannot keep their edge by standing idle or privatizing cosmic exploration, IMO.