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Originally Posted by Skybird
Very many scientists would object to that.  Its right the fragility of biological carriers of life that makes robotic and machinistic "conquest" of life-hostile space - or intertstellar deep space travel - the more likely scenario. |
True true.
Probes will be the main tool for the foreseable future. They're ''cheap'', dont eat, don't breathe and can be fitted with sensor, the human senses lack.
But we as a specie are obsesed with flag planting and until a meatbag plants a flag on a planet, it's not conquered, no matter how much we already know about it from the probes.
Like JFK said, we wen't to the Moon because it was hard.