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From: dls@mtgzz.UUCP (d.l.skran)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Scuttle the Shuttle?(Boskone Panalist, etc.)
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Date: Tue, 25-Feb-86 21:05:27 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 25 21:05:27 1986
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>> 
>> > 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


The panelist was none other than Ben Bova, President, National
Space Society(formerly NSI).

And a good point it was.  Mr. Dietz, TAKE NOTICE.

The same point applies equally well for teleoperated devices.
If they were so great, and the time lag easily overcome, they
would be widely used. Mr. Dietz persistently underestimates the
effort needed to produce working teleoperated devices.

Dale