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Old 09-11-2009, 12:40 PM   #39
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Originally Posted by goof2 View Post
Yep, I obviously got the wrong number.

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Telepresence does have limited application to the space program today. I'm sure both it and automation will play a part 50 years in the future (unlikely to be in my lifetime, the timeline I originally gave).

If you are talking 50 years in the future then why would we be sending men to the moon now? It isn't like we are going to forget how to do it. What we do today will have little impact on what happens 50 years from now.
You send people now because if you don't, then it won't be happening in 50 years. It's called taking the long view.
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