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| ▲ | Geezus_42 17 hours ago | parent [-] | | Or we could build specialised robots, which are way easier, cheaper, and easily controlled. | | |
| ▲ | dyauspitr 16 hours ago | parent [-] | | How is that human expansion? It offers no rewards of a human actually going out there or potentially being able to start a new colony. | | |
| ▲ | Geezus_42 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Humans would build and control the robots that go out, collect resources and bring them back without risking human life's. They can also do experiments, since we do not know nearly enough to keep people safe. | | |
| ▲ | wheremiah 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I would love to risk my one wild and precious life doing microbiology in a lab off-world | | |
| ▲ | Geezus_42 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I'm sure lots of people would. I just think it is more likely at this point that we spread and it just exacerbates our existing issues by shifting them to a much larger scale. |
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| ▲ | dyauspitr an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | This isn’t about just resources. It’s about humans spreading through the galaxy. |
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| ▲ | andrewflnr 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | And so, you see, the debate rages on. |
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