Build an Army of Robots… and Invade the Moon!
by tdaxp ~ February 27th, 2010
Major props to President Obama for shaking up NASA, and encouraging outside the box thinking like this
Way cooler than Bush’s moon base — why a human moon base when you can have a robotic moon swarm?
The New York Times uses top 1% of income, not wealth. From the legend:...
March 1st, 2010 at 12:05 am
Hopefully, there will come a day when technology is advanced enough that a human being could live economically independent from Earth. In the meantime, it seems we must compensate for our inability to overcome the fragility of the human body.
March 1st, 2010 at 12:09 am
Oh, and this piece of cinema is highly recommended.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10009075-moon/
March 1st, 2010 at 10:46 am
This is exactly what we need for the creation of moon based solar panels. This will allow the United States to become the energy provider for the world. We could potentially become the Saudi Arabia of solar energy. Of course, this will depend on how far earth based solar power advances. IOW, people on earth might not need a central provider.
March 1st, 2010 at 12:08 pm
We will only return to the moon when we act like the great explorers of the past [1].
A robot army makes it very clear how this could happen.
[1] http://www.geographictravels.com/2009/07/we-will-only-return-to-moon-when-we-act.html
March 1st, 2010 at 2:41 pm
As long as the robots and clones are careful [1] of how they store any nuclear waste on the moon.
[1]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqdMmH7UE_s
Seriously, I like Seerov idea, but wouldn’t it be easy to just have solar power satellites in Earth Orbit? Or is the idea that the robots working on the moon’s surface wold have 3 advantages:
1) Use the moon for raw materials for solar panels and more robots to keep lift costs low
2) Earth orbit doesn’t get cluttered with solar power satellites.
I think the key techs here:
1) Robots that can build solar panels and related from stuff already on the moon
2) Robots that can build robots from stuff already on the moon
3) Microwave technology to get the energy to the earth
That would sure be a fun start-up to work on!!!
March 2nd, 2010 at 1:01 pm
According to Wikipedia, China’s robot will land in 2013. [1]
Given current economic policies, a moon controlled by Chinese robots would rapidly establish a one-party, free market paradise — someone should tell Ron Paul!
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang'e_3