Persuasive Essay: Why Robots Should Go To Mars

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Amanda Mills
Mrs. Mercer
Honors Freshman Lit
21 February 2017
Going to Mars Although going to Mars is a long trip away, there are many debates on whether humans should follow through with the trip or not. Going to Mars will not help, it would only hurt the world. Robots are fully capable of doing this job instead of humans. It is a waste of money, and although looking for life is a possibility, it is a dangerous trip, and humans do not have the technology to move on with this trip. The controversy of who or what should go to Mars. Should humans or robots go to Mars? Logically robots should go to Mars before humans. There are three main reasons: Using robots will be the safest route, we have already used robots for space exploration, and …show more content…

A Robonaut is a highly-constructed robot to simulate an astronaut. It has arms and legs, just like a real astronaut. The Robonaut is on wheels, the legs are in a base and the wheels are there to control the robot easier. “Robonaut 2 (R2), R2 is made up of multiple component technologies and systems -- vision systems, image recognition systems, sensor integrations, tendon hands, control algorithms, and much more.” (Badger 1). The Robonaut 2 has four different speeds and since it is made to mimic humans, changing its air filter will be necessary. Due to the advanced design, changing the filter will not be a problem. Sending robots to Mars would be more beneficial in the end. They would collect more information and they are more …show more content…

“The technology hasn’t been fully developed yet, the astronauts on Mars will not be able to communicate with the Earth because the will be on the far side of the moon.” (DBriers 5). What is the point if we cannot communicate with our astronauts? Another way we could spend the money is to wait longer on the trip and use the money to advance in technology. “Rather than spending hundreds of billions of dollars to hurl tons toward Mars using current technology, why not take a decade, however much time is required, researching new launch systems and advanced propulsion?” (Easterbrook 973). If the humans and scientists wait longer until the technology becomes way mores advanced, we will not have to spend as much money in the

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