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Who’s the better explorer: Human or Robots?

I don’t always agree with Robert Zubrin, but he does make his point with very little beating around the bush.

“In short, if we want to get a sample from Mars, we should devise a plan to get a sample from Mars in the simplest, cheapest, fastest, and most direct fashion possible, and not let the mission be made into a Christmas tree on which to hang all the ornaments in the bureaucracy’s wish box of useless and costly multi-decade delays,” Zubrin concluded.

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