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What's the point of human space travel? We hold ourselves so far back by trying to make traveling through space possible for humans. Humans just aren't made to fly a ship through space. It's like making an aircraft carrier to transport a Macintosh 1. Other stars are so far away that a single human could never hope to travel to them in a lifetime, and then if we do manage to colonize a planet far away, they would be an entirely different world because of the time communications would take. All this is so much easier to accomplish with robots and ai made specifically to mine the asteroid belt, or explore the distant planets of Alpha Centauri. Why go on with people?
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>>9161939
Because answers are outer.
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>>9161939
Because a human could do everything the rovers have done on Mars in a day.
Robots are fine for exploration but they are much slower than humans, simply because of the transmission latency. You could always try better AIs to work alone and just send data back and get overall instructions, but there's always other trade offs, like if an instrument jams there's nothing you can do from Earth, but a human might be able to diagnose and fix it.
And I don't think anyone is really planning any human trips to Alpha Centauri, just so you know.
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>>9161939
What's the point of human space travel?
Because what the fuck else is there to do? stay on Earth until we wipe ourselves out? May as well make some token attempt to get off the planet.
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