This seems like science fiction -- our military is insane

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If you're so smart, why are you trying to talk to extinct animals?

 

That's just the sort of thing I thought of when this came up. Someone, somehow (perhaps the Chinese?), took over one of our most advanced drones and landed it in Iran. I'm worried about depending too much on technology (computer control, either automated or operated from a control center) and ending up no being able to use these things during a conflict, or even having them taken over and used against us. It's not as far-fetched as some might believe.

Unless the drone was shot down and the Iranians made up a large part of their story. I don't remember hearing that that's what actually happened.

 

Because it amuses me.....

 

It may have been a trojan horse.


American aeronautical engineers dispute this, pointing out that as is the case with the MQ-1 Predator, the MQ-9 Reaper, and the Tomahawk (missile), "GPS is not the primary navigation sensor for the RQ-170... The vehicle gets its flight path orders from an inertial navigation system".[18] Inertial navigation continues to be used on military aircraft despite the advent of GPS because GPS signal jamming and spoofing are relatively simple operations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–U.S._RQ-170_incident

 

I've seen you suggest this before. And THEN I said "NAH, thats 'stupid' ".

Because I believed then (and still kinda do now), that its basically not a good thing to be messing around with living framework too much. Or as I say "cyber-nannying" our human selves too much, its...really simply ANNOYING. Its people getting caught up in their own sociopathic genius to a fault.

People say be "organic" and "natural" in one breath, and in another support a most SYNTHETIC form of being that has nothing to do with being "natural" in another. There isnt much "ethics", consistency and non-hypocrisy when it comes to preserved existence it seems.

But NOW, I think we've long passed that point of "natural" form and existence. I've long said women are basically already cyborgs lol. They get fake body parts head to toe already. Angelina Jolie is willfully carving off and replacing pieces of her body simply for survival PREVENTATIVE, and getting reconstruction in its place (in place of what was ALREADY synthetic body parts).

So if thats the way ... the yeah "I, for one, welcome our tech overlords" into wherever its going (as though its not inevitable anyway)

 

My point is that it is humanistic chauvinism to think that human beings are an end point of evolution (unless of course, we annihilate all life on Earth).

Entropy and change are the constant state of the universe and given enough time, human beings will change; everything changes. Human beings are already much larger than they were just 500 years ago. Hell, kids born after 1990 don't even know what it's like to not to have instant communication and all the knowledge in world at their fingertips. How long will it be before we are hardwired directly into our brains? 10 years? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity)

And much like removing pilots from aircraft because it's just too taxing to try to provide for the fragility of the human form, moving into space would require even more. I can see how man could develop a self replicating artificial intelligence, engineered to be almost infinitely powered, almost indestructible even to the cosmic rays of space, infinitely scaleable, self healing, constantly learning, with the appearance of self awareness. Turn it loose in the universe and no telling how it may effect "life".

If AI can land a plane on the deck of a carrier, boom we are on our way. Where, I haven't a clue.

 

"Soon. Very soon..." -Skynet

 

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