[telescope115]

We could already be drilling the ice moons and hollowing out asteroids for mining and as spacecraft if we eliminated weak, puny, needy meatbag humans.

I have no problem with that, except give the politicians enough time, and they’ll find SOME way to come up with DEI for robots. Add in AI, and there ya go.

[baclava]

Put a camera on it and send a thousand spacecraft out to explore so I can see it in my lifetime

I don’t care about this “oh, it’s so romantic, just like the movies, when humans do it” crap.

Robots rule space, weepy human lovers need to get out of the way and let machines do space

I demand 100 new flights a year, by machine to explore NEW places, not boring low earth orbit nonsense from the past

[PIF]

We could already be drilling the ice moons and hollowing out asteroids for mining and as spacecraft if we eliminated weak, puny, needy meatbag humans.

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We could have had return manned flights form Alpha Centuri or other star by now, if the original Project Orion had not been cancelled in a fit of political weakness in 1964.