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The Future of Space Travel May Not Lie with Humans

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The future of space travel may not lie with humans, but with robots. At the dawn of the space age, space travel required human astronauts-they were simply more capable than robots. But humans developed technology that steadily made robots more attractive. Astronauts have to breathe, eat, and drink to keep going. But robots can travel to the ends of the solar system free of such constraints. They can do more, go further, and because they don't require costly life-support systems, they can do it all more often. Of course, they still require human direction. Nevertheless, we should all look for more robotic space travelers in the future.
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A measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable about its mean.

5-number Summary

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Z-score

A statistical measure that describes a value's relationship to the mean of a group of values, measured in terms of standard deviations from the mean.

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