It's not so much that the robot is polluting, but it is wasting money. In Minnesota, where I live, I can't start my car at -20F. So how does this start at -80F?!
I think it is a complete waste of money to be sending a robot around in the antartic wasteland to search for space rocks (Remember that you could pay many people $50,000 per year to do something like this and they would be happy). A robot that can do this must cost an incredible amount of money and would probably also have trouble coping with the frigid cold of the Antarctic because of all the moving parts and powering system. This will require it to be rescued by real people and waste more money. My final point is that the robot will also pick up all sorts of crap it thinks is a meteorite wasting even more time.
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It's not so much that the robot is polluting, but it is wasting money. In Minnesota, where I live, I can't start my car at -20F. So how does this start at -80F?!
I think it is a complete waste of money to be sending a robot around in the antartic wasteland to search for space rocks (Remember that you could pay many people $50,000 per year to do something like this and they would be happy). A robot that can do this must cost an incredible amount of money and would probably also have trouble coping with the frigid cold of the Antarctic because of all the moving parts and powering system. This will require it to be rescued by real people and waste more money. My final point is that the robot will also pick up all sorts of crap it thinks is a meteorite wasting even more time.