Humans robots and ethics

Question 1

what are the dangers of human space exploration

Answer 1

• weightlessness
• radiation
• vaccum
• Psychological

Question 2

weightlessness explanation

Answer 2

• normal fluid distribution means fluids build in upper body
• blurring vision
• motion sickness
• bone and muscle loss
• disorientation

Question 3

vaccum explanation

Answer 3

• humans are adapted to living in earths atmosphere
• hypoxia where all gas removed from blood stream
  EBULISM

Question 4

PROS of robots and space exploration

Answer 4

• no need for supplies
• reliable
• on board instruments

Question 5

CONS for robots and space exploration

Answer 5

• limited flexibility
• slow
  -limited by poor design and environments

Question 6

ethical issues of space exploration

Answer 6

• racism
• socio-economic
• the environement- environment beyond earth, forward/ backward contamination

Question 7

instrumental vs intrinsic value

Answer 7

• as means to a valuable end
• valuable for its own sake

Question 8

what types of ethics can earths natural environment have

Answer 8

anthropocentric- benefit of just human beings

biocentric- all living things

cosmocentric- all things in the natural environment