Curious why Mars rover has such a dinky camera and computer? - Future of Tech on NBCNews.com

[Scott Elcomb]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 6:37 PM, William Muriithi
<william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I actually don't think that will happen in our life time if ever.
<snip>
> If you look at the financial health of most countries across the globe now,
> its not hard to see why I think we can't obsorb such a financial weight.
> And frankly I think its not worth it, robots are far more effective in these
> kind of missions.

No worries - Reality TV will save us! <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_One>

Give it a couple years though and maybe (hopefully) someone will
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