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From: paulos@venezia.berkeley.edu (Eric Paulos)
Subject: Re: How to Explore Mars
Message-ID: <1993Jan9.085202.15690@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 08:52:02 GMT
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My previous post was inexplicable truncated.  Here's the whole post.

I believe that many small robots is the only viable method to explore planets
because it allows redundance as a feasible option.  The risks involved in a
single large robot are far to great to take considering the numerous
variables involved in planetary exploration.  As an example NASA used TWO
voyagers and TWO martian landers in the mid-seventies.  Numerous, small,
simple robots should be the approach.  Again computer architects have
made the move from CISC to RISC.  Now it's time for robotics to do the same!


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