Re: Bigelow patent


ianparker2@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Eric Chomko wrote:

As are most of yours. You need to stop confusing the science fiction
you're reading with actual science of the day.

I have never made any predictions as to timescales. These are dependent
n political factors anyway. What I have done is pointed out what the
critical steps are for each technology.


You made it sound as if telepresence exists as a reality today. We have
never implemented a successful mission nor even a proof-of-concept
test. In short, we don't have it despite having all the building blocks
in place. I agree we should move forward with it, but right now we
don't have it.

On telepresence it is true that it has not been used in space. However
my claim is that this is for political rather than technical reasons.

Perhaps.

In other fields (viz surgery) it is becoming an accepted part of
practice.

As a test scenario or on real patients?

We may in a simplistic sense view telepresence as simply projecting
ourselves to LEO.

No, that is not it! If it were, then the robitic arm would be called
"telepresence", which it is not. Telepresence is the remote control of
a robot performing a task normally done by a human. Period.

There is more to it than that. The main motivation
for surgery is to achieve greater precision and speed up recovery
times.

Right, but has the interactive virtual reality aspects of surgury ever
been used on a real patient, or is it still part of training sessions?


One remarkable medical advance - surgery on a beating heart.
Classically the heart has been stopped and surgens worked against the
clock. Not any more. The operating technique is interesting. The
computer predicts the movement of the heart and the surgeon is
telepresent on a stationary heart.

I say this to indicate to you that work is going on in many fields, it
is simply that NASA has made a POLITICAL decision.

Again, perhaps. I know for the HST repair mission there was talk about
it, but then it was determined to be more expensinve and riskier than
sending humans to do the repair.

Eric



- Ian Parker

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