Once all the glory has been put to one side, it is difficult to know what people can do in space that robots cannot.Ironically, if safety can be significantly improved, the main commercial market for manned space-flight may be one wound up in the same science-fiction dreams that seem to have skewed the rest of the space programme: tourism.
(As it happened, the fellow skeptic on hand in this case was Fang Xuanchang, the same science journalist who was beaten in June).
"This will enable us to look deeper, or to do the same science in less time," says Calzetti.
In fact, in a 19 March letter to Fermilab Director Pier Oddone, Brinkman asked Fermilab researchers to come up with alternative plans that might accomplish the same science in more manageable steps.
What is perhaps less recognised, because his art tends to be thought of as organic and carved and abstract, is that Brancusi's works disconcerted in exactly the same, science-fiction way.
E-books used to get lumped in with the same science-fiction stuff as jetpacks and lunar colonies.
Here's the emerging recipe proposed in that same Science study: Give local fishers exclusive access to their fishing grounds in the form of territorial use rights, or TURF.
But in the same way, science, when it's really experienced, is also visceral.
Overall, the above techniques are acceptable by the research community and it is common to see concurrent important papers, sometimes published in the same computer science conference, using completely different methods.
In the same way, science can unite communities if people first start to understand it.
