How cool would it be to not only send robots to Mars but mentally inhabit them as well when missions demand more than programming and autonomous A.I.
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Except for the 4 - 48 minute communications lag - time depends on varying distance between the two.
I was thinking (ruh roh) about a string of relay stations set along the way between Earth and Mars. Then I considered the different rates of orbit, the sun getting in the way...but that's a start.
And I meant human interface for tasks where the time lag wasn't a large factor, things requiring decision-making that you don't want to leave to an unfeeling automaton. Mark Zuckerberg has enough to do here, anyway.