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  1. Biak

    Biak Boy from Illinois Staff Member

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    Whatta ya mean "Kiddingly" ? It's true. The secret between a good pilot and a great pilot is hand-eye coordination and I've been told numerous studies were conducted to verify the phenomenon. All USAF studies and fully confirmed by other branches (Wings, Groups and individual Squadrons). I was assured that is the only reason Zoomies spend so much time on the course. Golf is some silly game the Scots gave the World and the USAF regards as mandatory to 'Keep Sharp'.
    Plus you can snooker some poor smuck out of his pocket change and pay for lunch if you're half good.
     
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    OpanaPointer I Point at Opana Staff Member WW2|ORG Editor

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    I beat two USAF pilots at racket ball the last time I visited my brother at Grissom AFB. Maybe I could have been the "Hoosier Red Baron"? :explosion1::explosion2::explosion3::explosion3:
     
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  3. Biak

    Biak Boy from Illinois Staff Member

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    Racket Ball ?? What's that? I bet it's some Elitist upper society past time that......ummm Never mind.
     
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    The greatest country song ever comes from Cameroon in 1974:

     
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    upload_2023-8-9_7-9-27.jpeg
     
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    OpanaPointer I Point at Opana Staff Member WW2|ORG Editor

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    When someone mentions Apollo I recall that the screens in Mission Control weren't computers, they were TVs. The calculations were done elsewhere and the screens were manually updated. The next error after "501" was "Dropped my crayon!"
     
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    USMCPrice Idiot at Large

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    Natural progression. With Apollo we lacked computing power and had to use the excellent Mk.I human brain to manipulate most functions. By the time of the shuttle we had more computing power but, the Mk.1 still had to perform many tasks. Now, the computer and AI has advanced so far that the human is almost superfluous.

    Just look at the progression of data storage devices:
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    Check out this Appollo era, IBM 2314 and its massive 29mb diskpack!

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    By 1971 we had this massive improvement to the 8in floppy disk with 1.2mb storage.
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    By 1983 we had 3.5in disks with 1.44mb and just the other day I ordered a 2 TB, Thumbdrive (USB Flashdrive) fits on a keychain,
    So, in the last 60 years we've gone from working with a machine that filled a room handling 29 mb of information to 2TB on a key chain. KB=1000 bytes, MB=1000 x 1000, GB=1000 to the third power, TB=1000 to the 4th power. Mind boggling how our capabilities have expanded.

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    In 1982 this was introduced for a price equivalent to $1,800. today. It had a whole 64kb of internal memory, the Commodore 64.
     
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    CAC Ace of Spades

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    What the Apollo times could have done with a 2023 phone…Super computers are being born at the same time as an exponential expansion in AI…We will not only see the realisation of many SciFi movies, but stuff even they didn’t dare dream of…
     
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    USMCPrice Idiot at Large

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    I hope it's the dream stuff and not the nightmare stuff.
     
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    SciFi has not shied away from exploring possible scenarios…Terminator is perhaps the most famous example..We are building AI…We are building battle bots…Terminator machines are precisely what humans are trying to create…Perhaps the exaggeration in the movie was its ability to take damage…And its vulnerability to its electronics. I Robot is another scenario that is possible…But again, we have had nuclear weapons in the hands of something as fragile as a human male ego and faired alright so far. AI would understand the MAD concept…once it thinks it could survive (and developed an ego) we might have a problem IMO…
     
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  12. Biak

    Biak Boy from Illinois Staff Member

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    Oh don't worry. The 'Influencers' on the interwebs will change the World. Well, those and the idjits who follow them.
     
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    Something different to be sure. Must be lonely duty. I wonder how the galley and berthing compartments are. Watch at night must be a ball. Guess they can always fish.
     
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    Reminds me of a Cussler novel...Delapidated on the outside but inside the latest technology - Weapon systems hidden under scrap and tarps...
     
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    Could be worse, could be Mara River crocs.
     
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    Mara dinner crocs for our Salties...

    They not only eat sharks:
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    They like croc too!
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    Can you imagine the croc that took his front leg?
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    Would eat you alive with a couple of bites.
     
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    OpanaPointer I Point at Opana Staff Member WW2|ORG Editor

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    If you were lucky you wouldn't be alive long. The Mara River crocs eat maybe twice a year. This had some people claiming their prey was somehow kept alive that long, which is absurd. They fed, they digested, and they stored fat up for the six month fast. I've seen videos of men running over the crocs, no problem because they were in a stupor most of the time. Looked cool however.
     
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