Now THIS is an inspired space policy.
“Send thousands of robots. Little robots – cheap ones that are disposable. More robots than NASA can manage. …
“Instead of some guy or another walking on Mars, how about this: ‘Hey kids of Middlevale Elementary, our class has booked off Mars Swarm Unit 213.3 for the rest of May. We’ll be directing the explorations of an actual robot on Mars.’‘You mean we get to drive an actual Mars robot?!’”
Imagine how awesome if would be if you could “play” NASA. Log in, pick a robot and start exploring Mars (or the Moon, or an asteroid, or Venus). Make the space program a gaming platform; instead of Second Life we can all play Mars Life.
