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From: dietz@SLB-DOLL.CSNET (Paul Dietz)
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Subject: Re: Scuttle the Shuttle?(Boskone Panalist, etc.)
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Date: Tue, 11-Mar-86 07:53:06 EST
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> >> 	"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
> And a good point it was.  Mr. Dietz, TAKE NOTICE.
> The same point applies equally well for teleoperated devices.

But teleoperated devices have been used in the lab for 40 years, in
nuclear physics.  Using them in the lab in non-life threatening
situations would not make sense.

This quote, while cute and no doubt laugh provoking, is pretty content
free.  People are cheap on the ground (grad students are especially
cheap).  People in space are expensive.  You can't expect the economics
to be identical.