[huxley]

“Substantially less inhabitable than Antarctica” is true of every single place that we know of outside our planet.

[kjkjadksj]

Which is exactly why humans are a terrible tool for the job of space exploration. Really a political sacrificial lamb more than something useful. A robot doesn’t need to sleep. It can take radiation. It doesn’t need to develop some long term farming system. It doesn’t need to come back home either.