Apr
26th
Sun
26th
Lunar Robots Would Be Awesome
Instead of more manned missions to the moon.. I think robots would be a much better investment. The daVinci surgical robot system is really neat — and “only” $1.3M or so… I dunno what kind of maintenance it requires, though. Reminds me that I heard that PG&E is funding a solar energy satellite and makes me wonder if a lunar energy generating station (manned by robots) would be cost effective. (Solaren Corp is going to send PG&E a few hundred megawatts of energy from a space-based solar satellite.) So will a lunar energy-mining mission be feasible? Hmmm.
