Re: Space exploration for the rest of us

Atelus wrote:
Sure there is no immediate return on your investment in human
exploration of space, but you cannot negate the fact that sending
humans to Mars, or space, would give us more information than a couple
of robots. The fact remains that in order for anyone to get to go to
space someone has to do it first and while robotics are a good start we
cannot understand the entire human factor without sending a human.

Do not get me wrong, I am an advocate for robotics research as well
but if you ever want to go from sitting in front of your computer to
space I suggest appreciating human space flight a bit more.


You want to send humans everywhere?

To Venus, with its 450 Celsius?

To Jupiter with its crushing gravity? A human would
be crushed dead in a few minutes by the huge gravity.

Same of Saturn.

How would you keep a human alive for long in Titan, with its -170 C ???

How would you get your human safely to Europe, crossing the deadly
radiation belts of Jupiter?

A robot is going to Pluto, another to Mercury, many are in Mars,
another, circling Saturn, ESA arrived to Venus.

And humans?

Even a short trip to earth orbit to repair the Hubble scope
is too risky for them.

Let's face it:

Human space exploration is more profitable for big hardware
companies that make big profit selling hardware to keep
humans alive in space.

Robots are more interesting for the real exploration of real
worlds. Not for Star War Enterprise fans...

jacob
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