Dispelling the myth of robotic efficiency: why human space exploration will tell us more about the Solar System than will robotic exploration alone · HackerPapers discussions

Dispelling the myth of robotic efficiency: why human space exploration will tell us more about the Solar System than will robotic exploration alone — mentioned by twic

Mon, 02 Jan 2023 17:33:28 GMT

> well-researched In places. There is a classic banger of a paper, "Dispelling the myth of robotic efficiency" [1], which assembles evidence that human space exploration, while expensive, is more cost-effective than robotic. So when i saw Maciej write: > Today’s automated spacecraft are not only strictly more capable[7] than human astronauts, but cost about a hundred times less [8] I jumped straight to reference 7, and found: > [7] I know, no robot can reflect on the nature of the Sublime while looking at sunbeams dancing on the limb of Deimos or whatever. But when it comes to tasks like…

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Dispelling the myth of robotic efficiency: why human space exploration will tell us more about the Solar System than will robotic exploration alone — HN submission

Thu, 22 Oct 2020 02:30:48 GMT

The Myth of Robotic Efficiency: Why Human Space Exploration Tells Us More

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Dispelling the myth of robotic efficiency: why human space exploration will tell us more about the Solar System than will robotic exploration alone — mentioned by Bluestrike2

Sat, 08 Apr 2017 20:41:15 GMT

Unmanned missions are absolutely a part of space exploration, but there are a lot of limitations that tend to get glossed over in the "manned vs. unmanned" debate. They're demonstrably less expensive on a per-mission basis, allowing us to reach further--both financially and technologically--than our manned capability would otherwise permit. They've allowed for a diverse set of scientific missions, including many rather creative ones that would otherwise be impossible for manned crews even if we had a more developed space infrastructure. But sample-return missions suffer. And those are…

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