failurebeatssuccess t1_ixf5640 wrote on November 22, 2022 at 11:40 PM

Reply to comment by s1ngular1ty2 in Realistically speaking When do you think we will land humans on Mars? by EnaGrimm

>>That's not true. A human can do lots of things a robot can't.

I don't think we are saying different things. I wasn't talking about current technology. Robotics is accelerating at a faster development rate than space travel. Ditto for autonomous AI. In 20 years time we won't be much closer to sending a human to Mars, but we will have some serious bit of robot hardware to send. It will be machines that colonise mars not humans.

s1ngular1ty2 t1_ixf5bgi wrote on November 22, 2022 at 11:41 PM

A trained geologist would be infinitely superior to a robot but it is just too expensive to send a person to Mars so it's better to send a lot of cheaper robots.