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Re:Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swa... by kllrnohj on Friday July 16, 2021 @11:27AM (#27857249)
> Send up another [improved] robot. These missions are less costly than human missions.

Says who? And how? This seems like an unsubstantiated claim.

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Re:Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swa... by gwbas1c on Monday July 19, 2021 @09:37AM (#27882517)
Robots don't need air, food, or sanitary facilities.

Launching to space is severely constrained by the mass you can bring up. You can send up multiple robots compared to the mass needed for all the food, life support ect, for a single person.

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Re:Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swa... by kllrnohj on Monday July 19, 2021 @03:44PM (#27886547)
Instead robots need fuel & more infrastructure support to move around and retrieve tools & supplies.

So again, [citation needed]. We don't have, and are no where close to, general purpose miniature lightweight robots, after all.

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