Instead of sending man into space i feel its safe to send robots.Is it possible?
2007-09-04 20:49:44 · 17 answers · asked by Ilavarasan 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
yah they always send robots to take pics n stuff
2007-09-04 20:52:26 · answer #1 · answered by blastophilia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of our current space probes and satellites are unmanned--in other words, robots.
But to really get the benefits of space--people have to go. We won't have more than a tiny fractions of those benefits without humans out there to do the work and the research and exploration.
Right now, every day in America, people die of cancer and othe rdiseases--people we could save. But the medicines we already know of can't be made on earth--and because there's no funding for advanced spacecraft, we can't build and operate the facilities to make those medicins. Tens of thousands of needless deaths every year.
That's just one example. Is space travel dangerous. Yes--and so is any early stage technology. People today think they have a "right" to safe air transportation. They don't. That safety--and commercial aircraft are the safest technology every built--was bought and paid for with the lives and blood of the men and women who had the guts to take risks . Our safety today isnot a right--it is a gift they gave us.
And--we should support those who are willing to take the risks of space travel. They are the ones who will make it possible for all of us to travel in space--safely--in the future. They are the ones who will bring us those medicines--and a thousand other benefits. Robots have their place--but they cannot do the job humans can do.
2007-09-04 21:22:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where have you been for the last few decades? We've been sending robots of various kinds into space almost since the very beginning. Spirit and Opportunity have been explorring Mars for over three years, for example.
2007-09-05 00:33:46 · answer #3 · answered by GeoffG 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and it has been done.
The Rovers on the planet Mars are a great example.
Machinery is a more applicable way to discover The Universe.
Humans cannot do what robots can in the ways of traveling such vast distances without ample air and water.
2007-09-04 20:56:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes. It has already been done. It doesn't look like a person. It is on Mars right now. Exploring. Testing soil. Sending back pictures.
2007-09-04 20:55:01 · answer #5 · answered by bhappy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are robots in space, ever see that HUGE arm on the space shuttle with "Canada" printed in big letter's on the side of it ? It's a "ROBOTIC" arm.
2007-09-04 20:53:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is more of a risk of failure because emotion causes you to move faster, i.e. if something in the shuttle needed to be repaired immediately, you would panic whereas the robot might malfunction and lock up, therefore wasting millions and possibly billions of dollars. I know your suggestion sounds safer as far as saving lives, but more things can be accomplished with experience.
2007-09-04 20:59:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
robots: professional = greater inexpensive, no nutrition, water or air, con = no longer clever adequate (yet) to repair their unusual problem human beings professional = a lot greater adaptable, we are able to cheer for them, large journey, "One great step for Mankind" con = something is going heavily incorrect = flag draped yet empty coffins fee of risk-free practices is 50 or a hundred cases robotic structures.
2016-10-04 00:31:12 · answer #8 · answered by richberg 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everything 'unmanned' that goes into space is a robot n one form or another.
Doug
2007-09-04 21:06:27 · answer #9 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is a more cost effect way than sending humans. (no emotional problems!!)
However, if you wish to control them real-time, there is a time delay as the control transmission will take time to travel back and forth.
2007-09-04 21:06:21 · answer #10 · answered by ideaquest 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋