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From: woody@eos.UUCP (Wayne Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.robotics
Subject: Re: Divert NASA budget to robotics
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Date: 12 Jul 90 23:33:41 GMT
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In article <$}T$X6&@ads.com=> pkenny@ADS.COM (Patrick Kenny) writes:
=> Let me ask you a question,
=> -Do you want to go out in space every day for countless years with a wrench 
=>  in hand turning nuts to create a space platform. 

yes...

=>  OR
=>  Would you rather have a robot do the unpleasentness of doing this 
=>  menianl labor.

menial it may be, but if i'm going to be the one whose life depends
on it i'd rather be there doing it.  of course ideally i'd be using
tools somewhat more sophisticated than a wrench...

=> -Would you like to work in a moon coal mine 3 miles below the surface digging
=>  out minerals to manafacture steel to create some shelter. And since you
=>  would be the first explores on the moon, you would have to live in a small
=>  space ship for the years it would take you to create something big enough
=>  to be productive in.
=>  OR
=>  Would you rather have some robots do all the DIRTY work and when the shelter
=>  has been built, then you can come and inhabit the place.
=>
why not just seal the tunnel?

=>Our job is to build the technology, robots, and let them do the work we don't
=>want. Not do all the work for ourselves and waste 100 years in the process.
=>
progress of any type is not a waste... it just may not be progress along the
lines you had in mind.

=>I think you had better go back and think before you blindly accuse people
=>of murders they did not commit.
=>
i saw no mention of murders...

=>
=>P.S. I do take great offense in you remark about education, because to me that
=>     is my top most prority.

no problem... it one of Prez. Bush's also... :-)

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