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It costs about the same to send a robot probe to Mars as to send one astronaut to the ISS.
Yeah, but would you get a robot probe throwing a boomerang around?
Honestly speaking, I dislike the astronaut-vs-probe argument, because, IMO, we should be doing *both*, and to do only one or the other is to let the budgetmakers get away with an "easy" choice.
Yeah, but would you get a robot probe throwing a boomerang around?
You would if it was Johnny 5! We be jammin'!
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