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Re:SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Project at the Boca Chica Lau... by mjevans on Thursday October 26, 2023 @02:06AM (#38022204)
Send a pile of good robots and tools there first.

Build a lab. Run it with things that we hope are good enough, but don't value enough to get home (back to earth) safely.

If we're really smart we can even use the whole thing to bootstrap a useful environment to get to and a far easier environment to get back from.

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Re:SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Project at the Boca Chica Lau... by mjevans on Thursday October 26, 2023 @02:48PM (#38030060)
It's been 12 hours, so rather than an edit to elaborate I'm adding a reply.

I mean very different robots from the rovers we've sent to date. Maybe not even more complex robots but definitely bigger (and smaller too) robots.

Their task not to survey with minimal disruption, but to actively disrupt. To build, to transform materials (lab), to create the base buildings and infrastructure of civilization. So there's somewhere with resources to better support humans.

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