Minh-Nhat Le wrote:
No. In terms of modern technology, manipulator hands as seen in
Gundam would be useless.
So what. Orbiting space colonies and portable fusion reactors are not
modern technology, either, so equating Now to Future is meaningless.
There's a reason weapons on planes and tanks
are mounted on big, beefy hardpoints instead of being held by a hand
with fingers. Unless humans discover some magical material that is
super stiff and super strong, that's not likely to change. Not even
in the near future.
True. So, again, you're saying you don't know if they'd be useful or
not given that some new, superior material could be discovered later. I
agree.
I'm implying that it's the best design we've seen *today*. What
happens in the future is not relevant.
When talking about a future creation? Of course it is. Today is
today. So you're saying that we stop now, invent nothing new since at
this moment we have the best designs? No. The best designs we've seen
*today* are the worst designs we will have seen 10 years from now.
From first hand experience, I
will tell you that designing a control loop to keep a mech upright in
flight is much more difficult and much more expensive than proven
winged designs, least of all due to aerodynamic problems.
You've been involved in trying to design control loops for flying
mechs? Wow. And you're saying that Wile E. Coyote is correct, if it
doesn't work the first time you just ditch the idea and try something
else? How many times did the Wright Brothers try to get a plane to fly?
Computers evolved due to a NEED.
Wow again. So you're saying that at a certain point of time there would
be no need for more than 5 computers *in the whole world* yet later that
need could arrive? Let's replace "computers" with "walking mechs with
manipulator hands". Hey, that sentence works, too!
What need have we for giant flying
robots when there are proven, cheap, efficient designs out that do
the job out there now? Face it, as much innovations as we want, those
only come about if humankind as a whole *wants* it. We wanted
computers. We don't want robots (well, we don't know it yet, and
there are people working behind the scenes to get robots to work, but
when you get down to the details, the problems are much harder to
solve than at first glance).
Ah, so we only go with easily solvable problems. Leave the difficult
ones alone, nobody is interested in them. Genetics, atomic power,
integrated circuits. I'm glad you're not in charge. "We don't want
robots", hahaahaaha! Right.
Alfred.
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