If you remember the movie “The Right Stuff” the early debate in NASA’s space program was who would be launched into space first, man or monkey? Now the debate is whether we even need to send a person to Mars when the nation’s space agency is developing humanoid like robots that can go instead.
The Valkyrie being tested Here
The Johnson Space Center is already trying to license out its R2 design Here
“That’s one small step for…a pile of nuts and bolts?”
I don’t know about the rest of you but some of these Robots FREAK me out. Boston Dynamics is straight out of control.
https://youtu.be/zkv-_LqTeQA
NASA is a huge waste of money.
Everyone could have real FREE healthcare if there was no Nasa.
A robot is technically an extension of the machine, albeit a more complex machine. We already sent up a machine.
We should be sending robots to Mars, but humans to settle the moon.
Mission to Mars.
Send Stephen Hawking. He’s 1/2 machine, and we don’t discriminate based on disability. Soooo, bye!
I like the idea of sending R5 to Mars. It saves on all kinds of life support and if something goes wrong we’re out a valuable thing that can be re-manufactured not an irreplaceable human.
The problem is communication and control of the machine from so far away. You can’t do an Avatar kind of set up because the delay in radio signal is just too long.
The alternative would be to make them as autonomous as possible, to make their own decisions on the spot. Load them up during rest periods with instructions and let the R5 units do their task independently.
Man is an irreplacable part in the exploration of space. Take man out and the nations, the worlds interest in exploring the cosmos will recede and disappear. It may take longer and be more expensive and sometimes tragic but that is the nature of mankinds greatest adventure.
He looks related to the Pillsbury Dough Man! Cute!
Robots are scary, think HAL or homicidal Daleks etc. Clowns are scary too, hopefully they’ll never make a robot clown, then we’d be in real trouble.
@IMHO: NASA gets a little more than half a penny of each Federal tax dollar.
Everyone could have free flu shots and a box of cough drops if there were no NASA.
Want free health care? Cut military spending.
https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_budget_pie
Id say I want one , but it might kill me … ah screw it I want one to Place Boulders !
Once they ditched the Apollo program, they went to shit. cHina has a better space program than us.
That’s PHUCKED!