-Caveat Lector-
Do you think that robots, as in artificial Intelligence, will be our
Nemesis?
Peter
We are about to go on a Journey. All Aboard
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Subject: [CTRL] IUFO: Permanent Robotic Outposts in Space (fwd)
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> And what if those robotic outposts have programs built into them for
> autonomous evolution (ie growth and development)?
> FWP.
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> JPL Chief Predicts Permanent Robotic Outposts in Space
>
> 7.00 a.m. ET (1100 GMT) November 25, 1999 By Matthew Fordahl
> PASADENA, Calif. â€" In a lecture that sometimes sounded more like science
> fiction than science, a NASA official said the next era of space
exploration
> will involve missions that last for years rather than weeks and will
> eventually pave the way for manned probes to the planets.
> Edward Stone, director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said he
foresaw a
> network of orbiting communications satellites on Mars as well as rovers
that
> drive around for miles and construct the robotic outposts.
>
> "It's a logical next step," he said Nov. 16. "But it will depend on the
> development of technology so that we can bring `up there' back here
through
> the power of communications."
>
> Stone, chief scientist of the Voyager project to the outer planets and
> director of NASA's lead center for interplanetary probes since 1991, made
his
> comments during the Carl Sagan Memorial Lecture at the American
Astronautical
> Society's annual meeting.
>
> Stone did not mention the recent loss of the $125 million Mars Climate
> Orbiter, which was managed at his lab, or the NASA investigation report
that
> criticized JPL navigators and managers for failing to catch the metric
error
> that doomed the craft.
>
> The orbiter and the Mars Polar Lander, which is scheduled to arrive at the
> Red Planet on Dec. 3, are part of the space agency's plan to send smaller
> spacecraft into space more often and at less cost than in the past.
>
> Rather than dwell on tight budgets, Stone suggested that the "faster,
better,
> cheaper" mantra espoused by NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin is actually
the
> natural course of space exploration.
>
> The first probes launched to other planets in the 1960s proved the
> technology, he said. The second-era spacecraft, which were launched in the
> 1970s and 1980s, were loaded with expensive instruments that were well
suited
> for global studies of the planets.
>
> But the billions of dollars spent on massive probes like the Viking
landers
> on Mars as well as Voyager and Cassini to the outer planets were worth the
> cost, he said.
>
> "This era of going once a decade with these large comprehensive missions
has
> given us enough information so that we are now smart enough to ask the
most
> important questions," Stone said.
>
> The $165 million Mars Polar Lander is part of the third generation of
> spacecraft: It has a limited science agenda of searching for water and
> studying the atmosphere â€" answering questions raised by the big probes
and
> proving technology for the next era.
>
> A more in-depth understanding of other planets, including whether life was
> ever present, will require robotic outposts over a period of years rather
> than the current 30 to 60 days, he said.
>
> Such missions will use existing energy sources on the planets rather than
> importing fuel from Earth. A fleet of communications satellites will
provide
> nearly constant contact with home. And onboard instruments will drill deep
> into the planet, unlike the literal scratching of the surface by today's
> probes.
>
> Stone, who did not make cost or time estimates, also predicted rovers will
> explore the surface of other planets. Unlike Sojourner aboard Mars
> Pathfinder, future vehicles will be able to cross much greater distances,
he
> said.
>
> Sagan, who popularized space science in books and television before his
death
> in 1996, said the greatest benefit of exploration is that it helps people
> understand their place in the universe.
>
> "Perspective is the most fundamental return of what we get from
exploration,"
> Stone said. "Although we have just begun the third era of exploration, we
> nevertheless have to have a large view of the future so that we can be
> prepared and shape that future."
>
>
>
>
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