Re:Barack Obama: America Will Take the Giant Leap to Mars
by TaylorAlexander on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @02:19PM
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I bet the time between noticing a new rock and taking a sample is more than a day for NASA. They have extremely limited time for what a rover can do. Have you seen the documentaries where they describe all the work that goes in to planning each move? I still think a human scientist could collect more rocks and take more samples in one day than NASA does in practice with a rover like curiosity.
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Re:Barack Obama: America Will Take the Giant Leap to Mars
by Retric on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @02:39PM
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It's a false dichotomy to assume it's one human or one rover. It's one human or ~100 rovers. More importrantly it's one human with 1 mass spectrometer or 100 rovers with 100 mass spectrometers.