Re:Deconfinement: The Price of Human Life
by pmiller2 on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @05:34AM
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Even if I agreed with you in this context (I don't -- hands inside space suits are clumsy, and eyes limited in what they can perceive compared to instruments), we can keep the people here on Earth operating the robots with ~1 second latency, and it will be fine. We even operate rovers on Mars with ~20 minute latency, and they've worked out well.
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Re:Deconfinement: The Price of Human Life
by WalterBright on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @03:53PM
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They've worked out well considering the extremely limited scope of what they can do. They can't, for example, brush the dust off their solar panels. Or even the simplest repair. Or dig a hole with a pickaxe.