[ExI] What happens to US space programs after November?

[Adrian Tymes]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 1:32 PM Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 1:26 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> I am not so sure that it makes any sense for humans to live on the
>> moon even if there is something economic to do there.  I.e., what can
>> people do that robots/teleoperation can't?
>>
>
> Fix stuff when the robots break in unexpected ways, which is either very
> difficult/expensive or impossible to fix with the robots themselves.
>
> In theory this never happens.  In practice this almost always happens with
> new tech of this nature.
>

Also, relatively cheap general-purpose labor.  This is less relatively
cheap given the cost of life support on the Moon, but given the range of
general-purpose labor that is replaced, it's arguable that humans would
still be cheaper - once you have enough of an operation to warrant their
costs.  (So, not at first: fully teleoperated bootstrapping, including to
construct initial life support.)
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