Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!jeffd From: jeffd@ficc.ferranti.com (Jeff Daiell) Newsgroups: comp.robotics Subject: Re: Divert NASA budget to robotics Message-ID: Date: 12 Jul 90 10:19:22 GMT References: <10518@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <#*S$G+&@ads.com> <848@sagpd1.UUCP> Distribution: comp Organization: FICC [but opinions my own!] Lines: 38 In article <848@sagpd1.UUCP>, monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine) writes: > In article <#*S$G+&@ads.com> pkenny@ADS.COM (Patrick Kenny) writes: > --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. > > *&^ SUPER FLAME ON **(&*&*((* > > Your type is why we have a stinking, lousy educational system now! > > Set back and let someone else do the dirty work indeed! If this > attitude had been present in the 15-1600's the american indians would > probably be a lot happier but where would the world be today. > Sit back and let someone else do the dirty work is why Japan is > buying our country out from under us as we speak. > Sit back and let someone else do the dirty work has always been the > cry of the rich and affluent. Look at every once great civilization > just prior to there downfall. Actually, the posting did *not* say "let someone else do the dirty work" -- it said "let machines do the dirty work". This attitude is why we have technology in the first place ... or would you want your colonists to *walk* to other worlds? It's a tad odd to knock someone for wanting to use machines if your own plan is 100% dependent on them. Jeff -- "Buy land. They've stopped making it." -- Mark Twain