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- Newsgroups: comp.robotics
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!wingnut!petesk
- From: petesk@microsoft.com (Pete Skelly)
- Subject: Re: How to send robots to Erebus, Mars ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.085239.10113@microsoft.com>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 08:52:39 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corp.
- Keywords: Erebus, microrovers, Dante
- References: <58554@dime.cs.umass.edu> <C0nwnE.1w2.1@cs.cmu.edu>
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- In article <58554@dime.cs.umass.edu> connolly@pooh.cs.umass.edu wrote:
- > Two more cents: The debate over "microvers" (whatever they are) and
- > "not microvers" seems to miss the mark here, in my opinion.
- >
- > In article <C0nwnE.1w2.1@cs.cmu.edu> lalit+@CS.CMU.EDU (Lalitesh Katragadda) writes:
- > > The primary purpose of Dante was not to build a Robot but to fulfill
- > > a mission that was till now not possible (see below).
- >
- > If data collection on Erebus is the objective, then Dante's primary
- > purpose was not achieved, right? The conclusion is "well, we learned
- > something", which is nothing to sneeze at, but it again begs the
- > question: why couldn't you do all this on a suitable environment in
- > Pittsburgh?
-
- In a nutshell....
-
- Flashy projects make for good PR, and therefore, big grants...
- (alright, maybe a bit cynical, but politics play a big part in projects
- such as this)
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