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WCDT: 2505-2509 (August 5-9, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread

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ChaoSera:
I'd rather have Tai's mother adopt her, so May could be a May Tai...

I'll go sit in a corner now.

katsmeat:
Perhaps not all spacecraft. Can you imagine how boring it would be for an AI to be a deep-space probe? The poor AI would spend 15 years watching the solar wind instrumentation give an occasional twitch before the mad excitement of a planetry flyby. Then it's back to the big black - empty aside from some magnetic fields and the occasion charged particle or dust grain.

Though if AI's can be uploaded and downloaded by radio link, they could possibly "commute" to the spacecraft and "be it" in shifts. Or be sent up just before the critical segments of the flight. Although there, you'd be up against the (huge) volume of data an AI occupies and limited bandwidth.

In fact uploading AIs may be compulsory. Since rockets still can blow up, presumably it'd be unethical to ask the AI to be on-board when the mission launches, when there's the very real risk of destruction.  Launching rockets with people involves a lot of extra expense to assure their safety. To avoid that with an AI mission, you could launch the spacecraft with basic, non-sentient housekeeping software and then send up the AI when the spacecraft is in space, has been checked out and is safely on its way.

But then, would you even bother with an AI for most missions, when old fashioned 'dumb' computers would be good enough? It'd be awesomely useful to have one as a planetary rover, assuming bandwidth allows you to send him her or ze*  up because again, landing is too risky for it to be right to do it with the AI in-situ. Even if the mission did manage to recruit one that's a gung-ho, adrenaline-junkie** nutcase who'd be up or it.

Meh... no real point, just randomly thinking out loud.

* I think it's reasonable to assume that some AIs  don't actually identify as being gendered.
** Whatever the AI equivalent of adrenaline is.

Akima:

--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 05 Aug 2013, 00:53 ---May May be a mei-mei?

--- End quote ---
Dare Dale be a da-ge?

I see a May moon rising,
I see ro-butt on display,
I see earthquakes and lightning,
I see trouble on the way.  With apologies to CCR.


--- Quote from: Masterpiece on 04 Aug 2013, 23:56 ---Faye looks hilarious with the glasses on.
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Canonically, Fay's optical prescription is coke-bottle lenses strong, so I wonder how  she was able to see May through Dale's glasses, which might even be plain glass since he doesn't need them for reading. Focus adjustment in the earpieces?

techkid:
They could also work on an overlay* (like how 3D glasses sit over your prescription ones). I don't know how widespread QC-Glasses are (hell, I don't know how widespread Google Glass is in our world), but mass production is a lot simpler if you can bypass prescriptions.

* Not sure if I am using the right term. But anyway.

KOK:
Dale used glasses before he got the glowing ones, so he must need them for something.

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