[ExI] one way trip to mars

[Eugen Leitl]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 08:39:52AM -0800, spike wrote:

> Note in the archives I concluded a trip to Mars would be a one-way, this at
> least a dozen years ago.  I also suggested at the time that there would be
> *plenty* of volunteers, no shortage.

The nice thing about robots, they're always one-way (unless you want
to return samples). Nor need the lifters to be man-rated, and they
do not need to be extremely reliable.

Now what this solar system needs is a mesh network of DTN routers.

A router in every orbit, a robot on every planet.