at that point, why not just have someone from overseas control the robot?

Because you can just have actual local people do it right there and then? The point of a robot is to not interact with other people, presumably they will be much more expensive than having someone come over for a few hours a week to clean - the whole appeal is there's no other human involved to coordinate or be nice to.

This is what happens with "autonomous" delivery robots that are operating on London campuses.

They are actually controlled by "robot operators" in Estonia, though officially it's "AI".

That being said, every day it's getting a little bit better.

> That being said, every day it's getting a little bit better.

Estonians are fast learners!

Because one remote overseas person can watch multiple camera feeds at once which should make the cost of a human-in-the-loop more palatable.

mm, good point!

Liability.

have you considered not buying apple products?

I would have thought this, if not for Microsoft's turnaround.

you really can't see any benefits to the technology they are creating?

No, not really. And certainly not to the degree that the above commenter was assigning. It's just enabling the world to become even more complex.

There's some benefits, but also massive, massive society destroying downsides. In retrospect, the downsides of social media like addiction, social isolation, and political misinformation, radicalization were hand waved away. We were told "THINK OF THE UPSIDE OF SOCIAL MEDIA, THINK OF THE CONNECTIONS" and now think of how isolated and depressed and addicted everyone is now. The exact same thing will happen with AI and VR.

I am generally not very fond of unions, but prevent wage theft is a very important function Unions have historically done very well. If there ever was an argument for unions, better contract enforcement would be it.

Think of all the poor unsuspecting stars! Have we not drained enough heat from our own already? When will plants learn to stop appropriating energy that isn't theirs to take?

actually, 'Touchy Subjects' would be a decent name for a site like this.

lead paint is the other big culprit.

For those looking to hasten the end of lead poisoning, the Lead Exposure Elimination Project (https://leadelimination.org/) does great work.

And despite being illegal, lead is still in the majority of paint tested in India

Of course the Falcon can be compared to the SLS. Both are vehicles designed to take things into space for crying out loud!

The figures are easy to compare as well. Just include these factors in your comparison! Even if we don't know exactly what those factors are, we can make a ballpark estimate the total difference and add that as a percentage to spaceX's final figure.

The idea that things can't be compared because they are different is nonsense. When things are different is the only time comparisons are meaningful to make!

>Both are vehicles designed to take things into space for crying out loud!

They have quite different fairing capacities, in a playfield that does not scale linearly.

It is like saying that the Boeing 737 is cheaper than the 777, and we can compare them because they were both designed to fly people in the sky.

You can compare a 737 to 777 and if the 777 per person were 10x more expensive then airlines wouldnt use 777. Not sure why this is hard do unterstand.

Because things in space do not scale linearly, and sending 10x smaller sats is not the same as 1x 10 times larger sat. Some missions require larger fairing/lifting capacities.