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Japanese Agency Plan for Robot Lunar Base
Dilaudid writes "According to these articles Keiji Tachikawa, head of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency sees a major role in the lunar base planned by NASA in 2020. 'As part of the plan Japan would use advanced robotic technologies to help build the moon base ... Japan's lunar robots would do work such as building telescopes and prospecting and mining for minerals, Tachikawa said.' Tachikawa was voted one of the 25 most influential global leaders by Time... I wish him luck!"
"Tachikawa's plan follows a January 2004 decision by U.S. President George W. Bush that the U.S., with the assistance of partners including Japan, should build a lunar base by about 2020 and use it as a staging point for the human exploration of Mars."
Does this mean that the US and Japan will be working together on this?
This quote actually fits!!!
"All your base are belong to U.S.!"
"Tachikawa was voted one of the 25 most influential global leaders by Time..."
So was Oprah. (same year) For some reason this does not give me the warm fuzzies. Did Tachikawa have a talk show or something?
It could be worse, it could be Monday.
See, I always knew that having a table for what planet you are from was a good idea for our customer user database. Its all part of my scalability plan. Heh heh heh.
Have their robot dog go fetch a lunar paper? Or have Osimo dig a hole by dancing? Oh! WAIT! I know... the base will be used to construct a giant "LASER" for "mining" operations and then hold the entire world hostage for 1 hundred miiilllllllion doooooolaaars.....
Cliff Claven
K.E.G. Party Chairman
Founding Leader of: Koncerned for Egalitarin Governance
I can just see giant problems here. First you position all your supplies to build a moon base, and then you unleash semi-autonomous robots to build it. What happens next is nothing less than the total destruction of human life on Earth, after the robots build their moon base, slowly becoming self aware, and then deciding that all our bases are belonging to them. This is a BAD idea.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
explain why Japan still kills hundreds of whales every year.
They are delicious.
Japanese robots on the moon, but no mention of the teenage girls that will pilot them.
I call shenanigans.
How else are they supposed to thicken their soups?
I'm looking forward to the day when most menial, dangerous and physically wearing work can be automated.
...and we'll be living in Caves of Steel.
They better make sure they build in those 3 laws...
Because the whales deserve it.
NASA PROJECT MANAGER: Oh, for the love of God... where do you find these people? Alright, give him a desk next to Dave Chapelle and that politician guy who reckons he invented the internet. Tell him not to touch anything. And tell Lucas over on Token Consultant Desk #371 that he can stick his turbolaser suggestion up his ass.
Scenario three. A guy with a hammer. He hammers in the morning. He hammers in the evening, all over Japan.
The War of 1812... the good 'ol days when the federal government actually tried to save New Orleans.
NASA will be spanked with moon rocks. On the moon.
I, for one, welcome our new Japanese moon-robot overlords!