Excellent point. One foot in front of the other to get to more knowledge.

Simple: nobody wants to live there. Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids.

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As we have no data of what can be observed if extraterrestrial life is found, we can’t train ML what to look for. We will have to imagine what would happen and directly specify that to an AI system to help looking. But it will be based on our imagination, not data.

After we have observed and ascertained extraterrestrial life enough time to collect facts, we can start using ML to tell AI what to look for. How many observations? That depends on what those observations are. All the same or all different.

Maybe… but good luck getting back. If you missed the next boat you just had to live with it.

400 years ago we couldn’t send robots

not really.

When the explorers landed in the new world, there was still air to breath and food to hunt & forage. There was also an abundance of resources to build shelters and native populations who were in some instances willing to trade.

It’s too dangerous. Successfully landing on Mars is not a guaranteed.

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The rule of thumb in space travel is that sending a human costs 1000 times as much as sending an unmanned craft for the same mission. Add on to that the fact that going to Mars would be an INCREDIBLY stressful mission for a human taking a very long time to get there, would require tech we don’t have yet (but is being developed), and would be incredibly risky too. It will happen at some point, no doubt about it. But man we are not there yet.

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Hell, maybe AI can figure out a way to overcome that limitation. Or perhaps that 'limitation' is merely an aspect of external world skepticism and just an illusion.

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Because we can't yet. A robot can easily make a 6-7 month trip to mars, with no expectation of coming home.You only need a small craft. No life support. No food. No water. No toilets. No medicine.

With a human, you need a large ship, with all of the above, and presumably the capability to launch off Mars and make it back to earth.

Now imagine boats and it’s just 400 years ago.

Risk and death probability. Plus, robots can easily sent back a lot more information

Way too expensive, a million things that could go wrong, and if things do go wrong, we probably can't return the human home. Also no guarantee of a return trip even if they make it to Mars. It's much cheaper to send robots, not to mention that it doesn't risk anyone's life.

Because we don't have a human rated craft that can support people all the way there and back yet.

Radiation, potentially missing the gravity well of mars and flying off into infinity, micro meteorites, electronic failures, need me to continue?

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Well would you like to be on a cold, dead planet with resuply only every 2 years? If something goes wrong nobody can help you, it’s dangerous. Even the robots struggle there like look what happened to spirit, opportunity and InSight

The technology's to send humans to Mars (either to live or return) do not exist, and are still many decades off despite what Musk saya.

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