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From: pkenny@ADS.COM (Patrick Kenny)
Newsgroups: comp.robotics
Subject: Re: Divert NASA budget to robotics
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Date: 10 Jul 90 20:14:31 GMT
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What we need is to develop robots to do the kind of work we are not good
at in space, these include building and maintaining a space station, a
lunar station and mining planets or asteroids for minerals.

We need to have to robots go out and set up the environment for us to use.
The sooner the better.

Man/Woman should populate space, but not before it is ready to have us.

I believe we will get there much faster if we let the robots do all our
dirty work.

-pk
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