Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: Scuttle the Shuttle? Message-ID: <6413@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Feb-86 15:46:11 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.6413 Posted: Fri Feb 21 15:46:11 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 21-Feb-86 15:46:11 EST References: <860208164138.380195@HI-MULTICS.ARPA>, <175@alliant.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 11 > You know, I've just had a thought. We don't need people on Earth. > Why don't we replace all of them with robots? (:-) As one of the panelists (sorry, I've forgotten who) at Boskone this year observed: "When James van Allen starts using robots instead of graduate students in his own lab, then maybe I'll believe him!" -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry