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In your opinion, is space exploration necessary? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by Nebulous_Keito@thelemmy.club to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I just started thinking about it. Why is space exploration even that necessary? They're spending so much money on it when we have so much problems in our own planet..

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[–] VinegarChunks@lemmus.org 1 points 4 days ago

We should explore space with semiautonomous robots. We can do space exploration at maybe a quarter of the cost of sending humans to do it.

Flood Mars with exploratory rovers for years. Then mining robots. Then manufacturing robots. Have them build facilities that build more robots to expand the process exponentially .

Then, if we decide it’s even worth it at that point, have them build a city and send people.