Comment Comment by melling It will cost $200 billion to get to Mars by 2040?That's a lot of cheaper robotic missions. If something breaks, there's another one in the works.We should also be developing robots that can do what the human can do. That investment will pay off in many ways.Btw, the first DARPA Grand Challenge was a bust in 2004. No one finished.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge#2004_Gra... parent melling 9 years ago
That's a lot of cheaper robotic missions. If something breaks, there's another one in the works.
We should also be developing robots that can do what the human can do. That investment will pay off in many ways.
Btw, the first DARPA Grand Challenge was a bust in 2004. No one finished.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge#2004_Gra...