I think though it would help to have people there while they perfect the automation.
HubertManne@piefed.social 6 days ago
I personally think manned missions after the first landing is kindq dumb. We should be working on automating in space and if we get that to the point where we can completely kit out a base for humans to use then maybe send people to it. Ultimately to me if space has any future we need to get to where we have a mining and manufacturing loop that can all take place in space.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 6 days ago
HubertManne@piefed.social 6 days ago
I don’t see why. to me its just going to be an easy way out. look at how they kept the rovers going or the extra solar probes. Problems are just more incentive to improve technology.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Yeah, but humans are impatient. Each rover has only a select set of tools. It can’t adapt to what it might find. It has to wait for another rover to be sent. To automate modifying the rovers will take a lot of hands on experience. Then ideally they could just ship up parts to be swapped in.
HubertManne@piefed.social 6 days ago
thats kinda the point of automation. if that is our main focus then we improve the technology which is what we got out of the original space race. all the technology that made the endeavour eventually succeed. sending humans just sucks up expense and resources and slows down reall tangible and useful progress.
nullspace@lemmy.world 6 days ago
There is value in having living people with the training and first-hand experience in any particular craft or trade.
HubertManne@piefed.social 6 days ago
I really doubt once we have a reason to send people up again that lack of experience with technologies we could not fanthom now will be a massive block at that point.