We just watched the PBS documentary “Space: The longest goodbye” about NASA’s next goal to send astronauts to Mars. The undertaking would require astronauts to leave earth for three-year, during which communication in real time would be impossible due to the huge distance.
In that film psychologists whose job is to keep astronauts mentally stable in outer space, reviewed questions and challenges propping up, as astronauts are caught between their dream of reaching new frontiers and the basic human need to stay connected to home.
They briefly evoked the idea of placing humans into hibernation during the 12 month required round-trip by understanding our bears do it... When all was said and done, the viewing left me with the impression of NASA’s misplaced priorities.
With the tremendous progress made with Artificial Intelligence, why not develop and use an army of sophisticated robots to do that job instead of engineering the impossible around humans?
Better yet, scrape the idea together, and take care of global warming, overpopulation and wars? Has humanity got its priorities in order or are we just pleasing a constituency (NASA and astronauts) that want to play explorers when their house is on fire?
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