Re: ....Question? Have They Found a Reason to go 'To the Moon and Mars' Yet???


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Sometimes you send machines to the spots that *won't*
provide the greatest returns

But how do you know what spots will provide the greatest returns
without getting a close-up look at them first?

Exactly.

To be exact, the locations that are the most challenging to get to will tend
to be the ones that will provide the greatest return for people, because it
will be the hardest for a machine to get to.

Let's say that
somewhere on Mars are one or two exposed fossil beds with clearly
defined exposed fossiils of extent martian life-forms. You're much
more likely to find them if you send cheap rovers all over the planet
than if you send a manned mission to one particular place. Then you
can send humans to that spot to dig the fossils out.

Which is *exactly what I and others have been saying all along*.



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