This is one of those things that would be huge news if circumstances hadn't obsoleted the underlying technology. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3662656/The-AI-Gun-beat-military-s-best-Pilots-hail-aggresive-dynamic-software-losing-repeatedly.html …
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No drama, no funding. :-/
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If we want or need drama, we could produce Game of Thrones: NASA Edition for less than it takes to strap 6 astronauts to a bomb.
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Are you saying the future purpose of humans is to experience everything in VR?
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Nope, just the things with greater than N% chance of killing them. One could quibble about N; spaceflight's is ~2.5% per trip.
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Depends on what your goal for space is. Science? 100%. Eventual settlement? Need humans at some point.
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The Earth won't last forever. We need offsite backups.
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That's more or less how NASA, its foreign analogues, and the entire field of astro-* disciplines feel about the topic as well.
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How does that further the eventual goal of colonization?
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for near earth sure. But scale of space and speed of light means we lose the best abilities of humans if too far from the action.
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…in a self-driving automobile.
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