Robots and Rationality

Why humans are still critical to the exploration of the solar system, and likely always will be.

I’ve recently participated in an online discussion about the relative merits of humans and robots for space exploration. This debate also edges into the discussion of the question of whether or not it is rational for humans to settle the solar system, so I thought it would be useful to talk about both issues here, and how they are related.

There is a com…