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

[William Flynn Wallace]

On the Moon:  1/6 gravity, isn't it?  Ideal for crippled people, old
people, high jumpers, Moonies

bill w

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 3:44 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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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