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Re: Argosy Mission Overhaul
- To: bmansur <bmansur@oc.edu>, David <David@InterWorld.com>, hous0042 <hous0042@maroon.tc.umn.edu>, jim <jim@bogie2.bio.purdue.edu>, KellySt <KellySt@aol.com>, kgstar <kgstar@most.magec.com>, lparker <lparker@destin.gulfnet.com>, rddesign <rddesign@wolfenet.com>, stevev <stevev@efn.org>, "T.L.G.vanderLinden" <T.L.G.vanderLinden@student.utwente.nl>
- To: zkulpa <zkulpa@zmit1.ippt.gov.pl>
- Subject: Re: Argosy Mission Overhaul
- From: Brian Mansur <bmansur@oc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 96 09:45:00 PST
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>From Brian,
>Brian
>Why worry about a dying drone when you have a
>million others to handle its job? Fortunately, this system doesn't apply
to
>human societies where we do bother to heal the sick.
>Tim
>The strength of us is that we are all different. Making us so different
>takes many years. When you would simply preprogram us, we would all make
>the
>same mistakes and die out quickly. (This isn't a complete arguement, but I
>hope it makes you see that mass AI production may not be as nice as you
>think).
Brian
Who said that all AI's (if that is indeed what we end up needing for
practical manned interstellar flight) are all of the same variant?
>Brian
>The Argosy design that I have in mind is, in fact, a maser driven sail
>attached to a ion rocket with a habitat that carries colonists and
explorers
>to a starsystem already visited by Pathfinding/Pathmaking robots. Those
>robots are assumed to have set up a maser system for decelerating the ship.
> This solves what has always been our biggest problem, stopping.
>Tim
>Of course you still need to stop the robots (may be easier because their
>mass is smaller).
Brian
My point exactly.