Re: Micro rovers vs. Stompers

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From: Ted Dunning
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 1990 22:06

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truly amazing, at the beginning,

In article <9792@pt.cs.cmu.edu> gerry@cive.ri.cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) writes:

   All of this talk about small rovers strikes me as being 
   quite silly.  Let's get real folks! small rovers can not
   accomplish meaningful scientific experiments.  

	...

and then he goes on to prove that

a) portable pc's are impractical

b) 10 g of solar cells need nearly 4 kg of support

c) robots _must_ continue at night and during sandstorms

d) detroit was right all along

e) there is only one doxie and she is orthodoxy.

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