(June 21, 2014 at 9:52 am)jmccool80 Wrote:Not any kind of expert on 69 tech vs 14 tech, but I would imagine rovers back in those days would have been far less sophisticated than today's.(June 21, 2014 at 9:37 am)BlackMason Wrote: How can we be sure that it wasn't a robot that put that there?
Because that would be more difficult than just sending people to do it? Why fake something by doing something more complicated?? It doesn't make any sense.
I could see a modern rover doing this quite easily. But back then I'd imagine the time and resources to design, build, code, and test something that also probably would have been the size of a small bus, would be far more time consuming, expensive, and difficult than just sending people there in the first place.
