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From: irani@cs.umn.edu (Erach Irani)
Newsgroups: comp.robotics
Subject: Re: Divert NASA budget to robotics, human life value
Message-ID: <1990Jul18.012454.16176@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 18 Jul 90 01:24:54 GMT
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Oops.  My previous message got Rot-13 somehow.

What I said was that essentially the space shuttle accident and the
Hubble telescope failure shows that the loss of human life is considered
unacceptable, while that of man-made articles (however costly) is
acceptable.

So, since the loss of robots can be considered acceptable why not use
them in space and other dangerous environments.  

	- erach

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