I wrote an article that was published today for The Space Review about the capability of human planetary explorers relative to robotic rovers. I based my article on my experiences up on Devon Island, and some research I’d done as part of a 1-credit seminar class I participated in last Spring about the Mars Exploration Rovers’ science.
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Humans vs. Robots: Giving Future Human Space Explorers the Credit They’re Due
Oct 31st, 2005 by Anthony Kendall
[FMARS, Manned, Mars, NASA, Science, Space Exploration, The Space Review]
Nice article at The Space Review, some really good perspectives on the apples and oranges comparison often made between robotic and human exploration. It’s so cool that you actually went to Devon Island - now I will REALLY want to read Zubrin’s book on that project (I ordered it last week).
Your blog looks cool too, nice diversity - I’ll bookmark it and come back to explore a bit sometime. I started a space and music related blog recently, right now mostly talking about the Orbiter space flight simulator (I just submitted a review of this simulator to TSR - Jeff says it should run in the next few weeks).
Writing a blog has raised my interest in others’ blogs, and I find there’s a lot of interesting stuff out there, like your blog, but just too much to keep up with!
Cheers,
Bruce
Bruce,
Thanks for the positive feedback on my article! Zubrin’s book is an interesting read, it provides some great details about the project, but it also gives a view of the human side of exploration which became very evident while we were there.
I look forward to your review of Orbiter, I visited your blogsite and it sounds interesting. I’m with you in that I love the diversity of blogs. Have you used RSS feed aggregators before? They let you read the latest posts without actually visiting the sites, so you could subscribe to my feed and just ignore the entries you’re not interested in. They really let me expand the range of things I read on the web while actually reducing the time I spend keeping up.
Thanks Anthony - I’m very new to the blog world, and I’ve only used RSS feeds for news and interest sites like Red Colony. Looks like I need to do some research to help my blog reading be more efficient, so thanks for the tip.
You may be notified but I wrote a long comment to your 9/30/05 Lego post which I really loved. You think and write well, which is not as common as it should be!
-Bruce