View Single Post
  #16  
Old October 24th 17, 09:23 AM posted to sci.space.policy
William Elliot[_4_]
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 86
Default Discovery of 50km cave raises hopes for human colonisation ofmoon

On Mon, 23 Oct 2017, Fred J. McCall wrote:
William Elliot wrote:


So you're going to build a purpose-built rover for this single cave,
including all the software development for autonomous operation...


They've been doing it for Mars rovers, mostly on the fly.
Once done, it could be used for other caves or difficult
parts of Mars, even perhaps caves.


And they've deliberately avoided 'difficult' terrain. As already
noted, Mars is harder because of the communications delay. How much
(flat) ground have Mars rovers covered over the decades? Not much.
And it only gets slower as the terrain gets more difficult.


One doesn't have to go far into a cave to discover the unknown.

Just imagine going into the depths of a volcano and running out,
just in time to jet pack away from an eruption. Wow! Wnat pics.


Just imagine magic pixie dust...


Just look at what magic pixel dust can already do.