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Yeah, because space based fairy tales provide a proper basis to engineer a fighting force. There are many good reasons why one would want a manual over-ride. T
by krisoft 5y ago
Yeah, because space based fairy tales provide a proper basis to engineer a fighting force.
There are many good reasons why one would want a manual over-ride. The imagination of popular script writers is not one of them.
- nonrandomstring 5y agoI'm glad we're in agreement. If only Ronald Regan has listened to his 'Star Wars' advisors. And a shame Boeing's 737 MAX software team had parents who took them to see Smokey and the Bandit in 1977.
- ncmncm 5y agoRR (rather, the people writing his script) knew that Star Wars didn't need to actually work, as such. It only need to panic the Soviet military brass enough to to get them to crash the Soviet economy.
- nonrandomstring 5y ago> Star Wars didn't need to actually work, as such. It only need to panic the Soviet military brass enough to to get them to crash the Soviet economy. It's a good, and perhaps trivially true theory, insomuch as warfare is always bluff. I think by mid-80's the writing was already on the wall with respect to Soviet over-reach and CIA knew that. But don't you think the ruskie scientists knew "space lasers" were never going to happen? As I understand it, the best we ever got were some kinds of chemical MASERs (Ammonium liquid phase) that could take out a slow missile at a couple of kilometres on a perfect day. Any confirmed advances on that? Ironically enough, in the context of this thread, such weapons absolutely could not function without total computer control of the ranging and targeting angle.