Mars: One Way

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Originally Posted by glatt

Sure, a machine is great for doing a specific task, but if the point is to colonize a place with living creatures, you need living creatures to do that.

You are still thinking in the mindset where only man can do things. Machines now do things better. And are just starting to get good.

We are only recently learning the world is not flat. Why are you still thinking in terms of 'we must colonize'? That is like saying the bayonet charge is the only effective battle strategy. Colonization was once necessary to support the best tools we had. Those tools (a colony of humans) has been superceed by something technically superior (and also costs less) - machines.

The argument is that we must colonize it. The argument is based in obsolete biases - an emotion. Logic says colonization has been made obsolete by what is far more important - technological advancement.

BTW, the cost of a human mission could easily finance about 100 robotic missions. But that is not the point. Each robotic mission accomplishes as much or more than a humanized mission.