Call me biased, but I would rather trust my life to a human than autopilot any day.
Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins went to the moon with the computing power of a modern SMARTPHONE. The Apollo program had 1 major failure (Apollo 13) and no casualties. HUMANS CAN IMPROVISE.
They'd improvise with the manual override button, which has been brought up time and time again.
Call me pragmatic, but I would rather trust my life to a well-programmed autopilot once we get into space. Computers have problems with groundhogs' roads, what with their changeableness and how no one's really tried, but nothing beats a computer in lightning-fast ballistic calculations and keeping an eternally vigilant eye out for the one-in-a-trillion chance of a notable collision.
As for the person who put arse naked in the poll: seriously? In the bay12 forums? You might have well put a 'this poll is stupid' option.
Motion seconded, motion carried.
I propose that for our starting ventures (I.e. the lunar resort) we call ourselves Twelfth Bay Enterprises.
Before we declare independence.
Afterwards?
why do we need humans at all , if the autopilot is so good , why don't we make robots and send them instead of us .
Humans are needed for some things. For instance, making sure the robots don't hijack our take-over-the-world plans and create a robocracy.
i agree that autopilot cannot improvise , it only follows to what the programmer has programmed in it , unlike human it cannot think more than it has programmed and if it gets something really unexpected (a thing that the programmer didn't think of) like black hole in its path , it might say there is unidentified object , but it has no idea what to do .
Again, manual override. Also, I give it a better shot that the US government will give us a space-capable F-15 plane and tell us to settle Mars with it than us running into a black hole, ever.
humans are natural super computers .
Most of our natural processing power is "wasted" on such things as emotions and preventing our bodies from not working. And it's badly designed to begin with, thanks to how evolution works.
Mh, we could just place those bros in a extra security cell that can only be opened by the AI. If it is opened in another way, doors close off the corridor and it is filled with helium, so they suffocate in a high-pitched death.
Or, just put them into some kind of oubliette. If the AI doesn't extend the ladder, no one escapes the smooth and inward-curved pit of DOOM!, for instance. Then we can figure out what to do with them.
Or, just institute a standard kind of execution. Maybe five, if we want to let them choose.
Firing squad, electric chair, lethal injection, spaced, old age. Anyone picking the last option will be informed after they turn in the form that "Old Age" is the name of my newest pet project.
But yeah - a three strike rule. Your third proposal is rejected, and off to the woodchipper you go.
Great, now I need to name a pet project "Woodchipper."
You know guys, death sentences are something barbaric. Why don't we try out alternative sentences, like reeducation(I'm certain the mad science guys can help here), forced labour or if nessecery, expulsion (Note: rocket back to Earth will not be provided,)
Reeducation might be possible. Forced labor could be useful, if we kept them from sabotaging or stealing stuff. Exile? Nah, we'd be better off killing them. We don't want anyone who knows ANYTHING about our base and doesn't like us escaping to Terra, EVER. Unless "Expulsion" is the name of yet another of the pet projects you want me to make, of course.
The death penalty isn't barbaric, it's pragmatic. "We can't let this guy interact in human civilization anymore, let's see how he does in fertilizer civilization."
8 ) Turn Phobos into a giant prison, then once enough prisoners are on it shoot it into the planet of their choosing, excluding Earth and Mars.
Nah. Replace Phobos with an asteroid or a pet project called "Phobos," and you might have something.
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