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NASA Plans Robotic Lunar Scouts
bleckywelcky writes "NASA's plan to send robotic scouts to the moon in advance of astronauts is starting to take shape, but politics and the presidential election are stalling progress. Yet, NASA is already designing the first of the robotic explorers. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter would return a global topographical map of the moon, measure deep space radiation in lunar orbit and attempt to find water ice at the lunar poles. Read the whole story."
Sure sure, and next thing you know they'll tell you they'll send a man on the moon. Sheesh...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Ummm... isn't this a bit backwards? First send men, wait 30 years then send robots?
Will they get special moon badges?
Was wondering what kind of kilts the robots would have.
...going to do a surface magnetic scan to look for the Monolith?
In Soviet Russia, articles before post read *you*!
... not really.
.... ummm ... five minutes?
1. Fork out an obscene amount of money to get men to the moon.
2. Spend 30 years getting increasingly pissed of while watching the tinfoil hat crowd trying to prove those men were never there.
3. Get fed up with it and send in the robots to prove them wrong.
Of course we all know that even if NASA does take the time to drive a moonrover righ up to some of the equipment left on the moon by the Apollo expeditions and filmed the stuff those crackpots will still go on claiming the whole thing is staged. But it would be fun to see how long it takes them to come up with a new theory, I'm predicting
Only to idiots, are orders laws.
-- Henning von Tresckow