re: #12 Targetpractice

Why did men climb Everest when a robot could have just flown up there and planted a flag? Why send men to the Moon when robots had been there years earlier?

Manned exploration had it’s time and it’s long past. Nowadays rich assholes who want to die or risk permanent frostbite damage pay a fortune to climb Everest and wealthy douche bags like Richard Branson look to market civilian space joy rides to other millionaires. Engineers and scientists, being naturally inclined to get shit done, build and send robots.