[Covenantor]

And exactly what sort of useful data would a human, clad in protective gear, acquire that robot instrumentation could not?”
If you cannot figure that out on your own, then there’s nothing I could say.

I ask a civil question and you respond with that?

Climb down from your high horse and enlighten us poor benighted souls lacking your vast knowledge and insights.

Surely you had something specific in mind when you posted that. Let it shine forth.

[PIF]

Its attitudes like yours which killed the manned space program and hold the rest of us back 40 years later. Just remember that when you send your pet Roomba out, daring to venture beyond your safe place, that you may find it reports back only what you asked it to find - nothing more. And so those fossils ground off in search of some rock strata were lost forever.