XPost: sci.space.policy, sci.physics   
   From: jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr   
      
   Le 20/08/2017 à 17:45, Doc O'Leary a écrit :   
   > For your reference, records indicate that   
   > "Robert Clark"  wrote:   
   >   
   >> I haven't seen how much these teams have spent developing their robots but   
   >> considering they are privately funded, and many using university students to   
   >> do the research and construction, there's no doubt they cost less than the   
   >> NASA developed robots.   
   >   
   > Can you really say something is cheaper when you externalize costs by   
   > exploiting free labor to produce it?  Are there going to be any actual   
   > *jobs* for the people they’re using, or is this going to be yet another   
   > cycle of telling kids they need to go to college, and then shoving them   
   > into a job market that no longer values the skills they learned?   
   >   
   Thanks for this message.   
      
   A little bit of rational thinking is really welcome.   
      
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