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0 pointssamstave8y ago0 comments

I know that, I was putting a random number.

Regardless, we could still have a fleet of robots go build structures there, then another that will grow things in the structures...

We talk about sending men to mars, but I think it's short-sighted to not first figure out how to send and deploy resources and robots to pre-build infrastructure for said humans - and we should be practicing on the moon.

Or why is it that nobody seems to be talking about this? And specifically talking about practicing in the moon?

Spacex is really focused on a rocket that can get to mars, how much more quickly can it get to the moon?

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ekianjo8y ago

> We talk about sending men to mars, but I think it's short-sighted to not first figure out how to send and deploy resources and robots to pre-build infrastructure for said humans - and we should be practicing on the moon.

As far as I know SpaceX is focusing on sending "stuff" to Mars, not just humans. Humans are better than robots in many ways though, as in they can do a lot of more versatile stuff. We can build rovers to explore and take pictures, but building a robot that can mimic the palette of actions of a typical human is far beyond our reach at the moment.

stevenwoo8y ago

I thought that we're really not sure if even the dust on either our moon or Mar is that compatible with human life. This article is more than ten years old so we possibly have newer data on Mars at least. http://www.airspacemag.com/space/stronger-than-dirt-8944228/

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