building
We humans have the ability to build beautiful things or ugly ones, to seek out peace or war, to do good or evil, to reach for the sublime or wallow in the slop.
And it's an individual decision, one we make multiple times, each and every day.
San Giorgio Cathedral framed print -- https://stevehendersonart.com/featured/san-giorgio-cathedral-steve-henderson.html?product=framed-print
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I send thanks to the buyer from Washington who purchased a greeting card of
The Ascension -- https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-ascension-steve-henderson.html?product=greeting-card
May the artwork take both you, and the person to whom you send the card, to a grand a majestic place.
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It was a sunny warm day, the lawn was green and lush, and the spot in front of the courthouse rather looked like a perfect place to stop and have a picnic.
And so they did.
Columbia County Courthouse canvas print -- https://fineartamerica.com/featured/columbia-county-courthouse-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print
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MARS HAS
A MAINTENANCE PROBLEM 💎
Yesterday, I was writing about human beings on Mars, and one question kept nagging at me. People say we’ll send the robots first.
Fine.
But getting to Mars, landing there, and then working for years in the Martian environment are brutal demands on machines, not to mention the ongoing industry, building and maintenance work to be done upon arrival.
Radiation damages electronics and computer chips. Extreme temperature swings stress materials. The red dust gets in everywhere. Moving parts wear out. Bearings fail. Electric motors fail. Cables fail. Sensors fail. And there is nobody there with a toolbox.
So the usual answer is: send lots of robots, make them modular, give them spare parts, and let them repair one another. Which sounds sensible until you ask the obvious question.
WHO REPAIRS THE ROBOT THAT REPAIRS THE ROBOTS?
A Mars colony built by machines would need far more than a few clever humanoids to unload the rockets.
MARS WILL NEED SOMETHING CLOSE TO AN AUTONOMOUS INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM.
Robots maintaining robots. Robots replacing worn parts. Robots diagnosing faults. Robots manufacturing components. Robots keeping power, communications, mining, transport and construction working for years without a single human engineer ever standing beside them.
And eventually, if the whole thing is supposed to become independent of Earth, they would need to make their own replacement parts from local Martian materials.
That is not a small detail.
THAT IS PRACTICALLY AN ENTIRE CIVILIZATION OF MACHINES.
We have become very good at landing robots on Mars. We have not yet demonstrated a self-maintaining robotic economy on Earth, let alone on another world.
So perhaps the real question is not: “Can Elon Musk send robots to Mars?” Quite possibly. The harder question is:
CAN HE SEND A SYSTEM THAT CAN KEEP ITSELF ALIVE?
Because if the answer is no, then the robots are not building a colony.
They are just waiting to break.
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