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Article #594Re: Divert NASA budget to robotics, human life value
From: Wayne Wood
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 1990 16:27
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 1990 16:27
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In article <1990Jul18.012037.13842@cs.umn.edu> irani@cs.umn.edu (Erach Irani) writes: >One reason for using robots in space (or any environment hazardous to >people) is the value of human life as oppossed to the cost of man-made >things. Consider the Challenger space shuttle accident versus the Hubble >Telescope accident. Human life is valued far far more highly than the >cost of material things lost. > these two incidents are not of the same order. we haven't "lost" the Humble Space Trashcan... it just isn't operating at this time. second... does anybody out there have an *operational* robot that can be sent up on (say) the next mission? No? i thought not.... /*** woody **************************************************************** *** ...tongue tied and twisted, just an earth bound misfit, I... *** *** -- David Gilmour, Pink Floyd *** ****** woody@eos.arc.nasa.gov *** my opinions, like my mind, are my own ******/
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!agate!shelby!eos!woody From: woody@eos.UUCP (Wayne Wood) Newsgroups: comp.robotics Subject: Re: Divert NASA budget to robotics, human life value Message-ID: <6939@eos.UUCP> Date: 18 Jul 90 16:27:06 GMT References: <2787@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <18608@ttidca.TTI.COM> <9935@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <6488@machiavelli.ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov> <1990Jul18.012037.13842@cs.umn.edu> Reply-To: woody@eos.UUCP (Wayne Wood) Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif. Lines: 20