Humans vs. robots: who should argue against humans in space?

Last year, I wrote an article called “The new humans vs. robots debate: introducing the FH Prize” (The Space Review, February 13, 2006). It made the case that robots would do a much better job arguing against human spaceflight than their obsolete human counterparts, and therefore called for anti-human-spaceflight humans to replace themselves with robots. Unfortunately, this advice was not taken up. This email I received recently appears to come from a human being: