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Rationale for sending manned mission to another star?
FOMO, and AI is not us.
Many answers here focus on AI being inadequate or underdeveloped for the task: I disagree. AI can likely do everything a human can do - potentially better. I have no doubt an ...
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Rationale for sending manned mission to another star?
We were already going.
(Depending on how near this near future is)
The probe that detected the orbiting derelict is just one of a wave of advance probes that we sent out in every direction. We were ...
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Rationale for sending manned mission to another star?
Reliability
Recently we've sent multiple landers to the Moon that have failed. Unanticipated failures in hardware or conditions that triggered hardware failure modes revealed flaws or inadequacy of ...
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Rationale for sending manned mission to another star?
Testing technology for stellar travel
The mission is an experiment of testing technological capabilities that are necessary for travels to further stars.
In a similar way we have the Mars-500 mission ...
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Rationale for sending manned mission to another star?
It's what we do
Of course it makes no sense to risk life and limb going to the Moon, Mars, or the next star over. We have probes that make just as good of a job, if not better. And at worst if one ...
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Rationale for sending manned mission to another star?
Humans are cheap
The ship needs to carry around 100 tons of equipment to examine the station anyway, humans can be stored in stasis pods that just weigh 100 kilos or so. Carrying a couple tons of ...
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Rationale for sending manned mission to another star?
Frame challenge: Public choice theory
There is no problem.
You don't need the nation to benefit, just a few select people.
Maybe the chief contractor had a cost plus contract written by a foolish (or ...
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Rationale for sending manned mission to another star?
I am actually fairly certain that sending a manned mission or at least partially manned mission would be a necessity.
You said it is near future, so I will assume that AIs are still being taught as ...
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Rationale for sending manned mission to another star?
it's a good way to get rid of "undesirables". Not too dissimilar to the way the British used Australia as a prison colony during the age of sail, and France their South American colonies, ...
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Rationale for sending manned mission to another star?
Inadequate remote intelligence
Mars is only three minutes away. Getting data, reviewing it, and deciding what the rovers will be doing tomorrow is just an all-nighter.
Now imagine how that would work ...
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Rationale for sending manned mission to another star?
The AI controlled probes have found tantalizing evidence of alien script and user interfaces. AI is used to mitigate the time lag. The AIs have become erratic after an interaction with some kind of ...
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Rationale for sending manned mission to another star?
A Frame challenge:
An ancient derelict spaceship or space station orbiting Bernard's star six light years away would have to be immense to be detected from our solar system "in the near future&...
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Rationale for sending manned mission to another star?
Because there is a 12 year decision lag with remotes
Autonomous robotics are fine and well when you know exactly where to go and exactly what to do.
Introduce any kind of dynamics to a situation, and ...
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Rationale for sending manned mission to another star?
It is proof of life outside earth, and technological life at that. The potential discoveries boggle imagination. It is the single most important discovery in the history of the world. Likewise this is ...
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Rationale for sending manned mission to another star?
(Bouncing off of Gillgamesh's answer)
One of those reasons why probes are not enough is because the robotic mission was a flyby mission, a la Breakthrough Starshot. Actually decelerating from high ...
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Rationale for sending manned mission to another star?
Assuming no FTL, a 1 way travel time of minimum 6 years. Asking for volunteers for this mission, you would still have hundreds of applicants. That is just the brighter side of the often dark human ...
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How do general all-purpose robots know a person's nutritional status?
They touch you
They have infrared sensors and such built into their hands that let them scan blood flow and detect signs of poor health.
This means that the humans won't feel it's a super invasive ...
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How do general all-purpose robots know a person's nutritional status?
Smart toilets
What goes in, comes out.
Your "Mr Crapper" (tm) smart toilet wireless links to network and tells your bot about your health status.
It's already happening
Smart Toilet
Plan B ...
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How do general all-purpose robots know a person's nutritional status?
They sync with your wearable fitness device
Wearable fitness devices lcan already monitor enough metabolic health factors to be able to tell if a person is eating enough. You would just Bluetooth ...
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How do general all-purpose robots know a person's nutritional status?
Built into the system
No one wants a system that will feed them without reference to their needs, age, size, and activity.
First, they would be told the humans' ages, and any medical information ...
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How do general all-purpose robots know a person's nutritional status?
1: Sight.
Okay, I don't know the exact method your robot uses, but presumably there will be some form of visual sensor - whether it uses electromagnetic (like our eyes) or a sonar type system - the ...
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