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From: pkenny@ADS.COM (Patrick Kenny)
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Subject: Re: Divert NASA budget to robotics
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Date: 12 Jul 90 21:25:29 GMT
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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.
>
>	Develop the robotic technology, but use it a tool, not as a replacement
>    for the human next to it.
>
>*&^ FLAME OFF **(&*&*((*
>
>Have a nice COMFORTABLE day.
>
>Monty Saine


Look buddy, This is the first time I have ever gotten flamed, alas Super Flamed,
for what I consider a good idea.
 The reason why our country has a lousy educational system has noting to do 
with what I am saying, yes parents should be more involved in the childerns
education, but that is another story altogether.
 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. 
  OR
  Would you rather have a robot do the unpleasentness of doing this 
  menianl labor.
 -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.

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.

I think you had better go back and think before you blindly accuse people
of murders they did not commit.

  Sincerly,
    Pat Kenny

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

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