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Re:Robots are not very good at picking strawberries yet by Gibbon1 on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @12:44AM (#16635529)
It's not the the technology hasn't advanced. There's been a lot of improvements in aerospace manufacturing techniques and materials since then. It's just the cost vs interest isn't there.

In the case of the US the space shuttle program was the big disaster. Keeping them operational consumed so much of NASA's budget that they couldn't afford to develop a heavy lift vehicle. That and the bloated US military industrial pork complex can't make anything on time and on budget.

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Re:Robots are not very good at picking strawberries yet by JetSpiegel on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @08:31AM (#16637453)
> It's not the the technology hasn't advanced. There's been a lot of improvements in aerospace manufacturing techniques and materials since then. It's just the cost vs interest isn't there.

Isn't that a distinction without difference?

We have the technology to solve world hunger, it's just the cost vs interest isn't there.

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