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To: Cincinatus' Wife
The two guys on Mars now aren't equipped to analyze the atmosphere? (Just curious. I don't know what would be required to do that kind of analysis by a robot on site.)
7 posted on 03/01/2004 4:53:17 AM PST by samtheman
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To: samtheman
two guys on Mars now

You mean the geologist rover robots?

Never send a rover to do a man's work.

Seriously, robots can do some things man can't or shouldn't, but improvising isn't one of them. It takes a human behind the machine to do that and if the man isn't clever enough, or the machine isn't capable enough, that isn't going to happen either.

Clementine detected water-ice at the Moon's south pole, because the men operating the orbiter improvised a radar experiment on the fly.

9 posted on 03/01/2004 5:01:05 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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