safety of manned missions

[xecute]

should we keep sending machines to other planets to discover, or .. should we send men? after all, machines have been failing

[Chronos]

So have manned missions. Machines are much cheaper and able to continue to send information long after their biological equivalents would have expired.

[setAI]

should we keep sending machines to other planets to discover, or .. should we send men? after all, machines have been failing


quite soon these will be the same thing-

future "manned" misions will be humans in adapted bodies/tools- either heavily modified biological bodies or non-biological machines running a copy of human mind-ware- or at least remotely linked directly to the motor/sensory inputs/outputs of a human brain somewhere on earth-

eventually we should only be sending small packages of nanomachinery and software into space- at some point- nanomachinery and software may be all most of us are here on earth as well!