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MarsDog

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From: vancouver canada

Registered: 2004-03-24

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Re: Do you take this Woman - for a long ride ?

http://space.com/businesstechnology/vir … html]Would you trust her as a co pilot ?

John Creighton

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From: Nova Scotia, Canada

Registered: 2001-09-04

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Re: Do you take this Woman - for a long ride ?

Oh, from the title I thought this thread was about marriage. Anyway, I would go on a plane without a co-pilot. So if this virtual girl is a good pilot, all the better.

Resisting the tendency to type some obvious inappropriate puns.

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Rxke

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2003-11-03

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Re: Do you take this Woman - for a long ride ?

Totally off-topic, bud Gawd how I HATE Space.com's popups, and popunders! Raaaaaah!

(Sorry. But I'm soooooooooooo fed up with it...)

Anyhow, I think the guy is overhyping his product. What he's trying to sell is nothing more than an animated computerinterface. That already exists, and it's *not* ready for spaceflight, LOL!
And you don't need that virtual human for "the lightning-fast reactions," for it's just a façade... The lightning fast reactions are the computers themselves, running everything... As they always did, with or without fancy interface.

IMO he's angling for NASA money...

You might've guessed i'm in a bad mood, heh...

Cobra Commander

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From: The outskirts of Detroit.

Registered: 2002-04-09

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Re: Do you take this Woman - for a long ride ?

I'm not a fan of fancy interfaces of any kind, really. Keyboard and toggle switches, keep the glitch factor to a minimum.

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SpaceNut

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From: New Hampshire

Registered: 2004-07-22

Posts: 29,017

Re: Do you take this Woman - for a long ride ?

Sort of like the star trek voyager holographic Doctor. Good for the soul plus you can turn it off if you do not want to hear it.

Martian Republic

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From: Haltom City- Dallas/Fort Worth

Registered: 2004-06-13

Posts: 855

Re: Do you take this Woman - for a long ride ?

I think that virtual person is over hype too.

Like what the Cobra Commander said:

>>>I'm not a fan of fancy interfaces of any kind, really. Keyboard and toggle switches, keep the glitch factor to a minimum. <<<

Keeping it simple and functional is best as far space flight. Beside there is going to be a lot of overhead when you start using sound, graphics and voice recognition technologies along with anything else you might add. Even doing a simpler high tech version of that with our computers with sound boards and video cards we get fault errors, computer lock ups along with a hole host of other problems. With present technology we are probably asking for trouble if we use such a system for critical system on board our space craft.

However, she might make a great ship counselor though and help on the emotional or mental side of the equation. If she develop fault error or locks ups, we could always reboot her. But, you would not want to deal with that problem while your making a critical maneuver that could be a life and death situation where you don’t have the time to wait for our virtual human to reboot.

We might choose to use this technology, but it uses should be limited though.

Larry,

Zusayan

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Registered: 2005-02-06

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Re: Do you take this Woman - for a long ride ?

A full nude version is required for the voyage.

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