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Re:Space colonies of the future as imagined by NASA in the 1... by abdel_nasser on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @09:16PM (#29326282)
exactly. there are no large masses in space let alone ones we can anchor things to. the country of canada tried to build a robot arm for space and they ran into this exact problem. seriously, if they would just consult smart people like us then maybe they could have saved themselves the trouble of launching silly robotic arms into literal orbit.
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Re:Space colonies of the future as imagined by NASA in the 1... by rtkwe on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @10:30PM (#29326668)
Oh no I totally didn't think of the most famous robot arm in space, one that moves slowly and carefully and was planned and designed to work with the single largest and heaviest thing we've ever assembled in orbit. My point was you can't just grab a generic industrial arm and sling it around it needs a lot of consideration on how to mount and move it, Canada arm moves quite slowly and carefully.
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