From: utzoo!decvax!cca!LRC.Slocum@UTEXAS-20@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.space
Title: remote control mining
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.3013
Posted: Mon Aug 30 22:47:56 1982
Received: Wed Sep  8 02:09:47 1982

From: Jonathan Slocum 
How do you control a piece of equipment with a built-in 2 1/2 second
MINIMUM reaction time?  Answer: not with any reliability at all, in
even a moderate environment.  And on the moon -- MINING, no less???

As the Navy and other deep-sea operators know, there are lots of
situations where remotes do well -- but there are even more where they
do not.  For most purposes, you've got to be there yourself.  That's
why there is so much interest in manned deep-submergence vessels,
diving tables, and the like.  All this, with NO perceptible control
delay, and some of the finest equipment money can buy -- at vastly
cheaper prices than equivalent capability deposited (intact) on the
surface of the moon by any currently available or near-term future
means.

So don't go staking your claims...
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