> The question there is the impact. If you just risk some thing and money it lowers the barrier for going into action, as the risk of having to handing a flag to a pilot's family goes away.
Let's say an hostile space alien invasion happen in 10 years : would it not be better to not sacrifice human at all in the fight?
> Also for surveillance/intelligence roles a human on board can have a better overview and decide where to go.
With technology, we can create an arbitrary numbers of new sensing capabilities into the machine. A human will be surpassed by a machine before our generation passes away.
> Let's say an hostile space alien invasion happen in 10 years : would it not be better to not sacrifice human at all in the fight?
Our plane technology is quite useless in such a situation (and considering that alpha centauri is 5 light years away and aliens likely use the same physics 10 years is quite unlikely ;) )
> With technology, we can create an arbitrary numbers of new sensing capabilities into the machine. A human will be surpassed by a machine before our generation passes away.
Often times the combination of human instinct and machine capability is still the best for many tasks.
> Our plane technology is quite useless in such a situation (and considering that alpha centauri is 5 light years away and aliens likely use the same physics 10 years is quite unlikely ;) )
You don't know, anything that would preemptively help to save human lives should be considered. Sending unmanned fighters or drones to probe a spaceship and gather data is wiser than sending humans to the task.
> Often times the combination of human instinct and machine capability is still the best for many tasks.
Sure. For how long tho. Also, when you fly a plane at twice the sound speed with a screen in front of you, you are already inside like a total simulated environment, your only human instinct used here is your survival instinct, which will, conveniently, save a multi-million dollars
plane from being destroyed.
> Sure. For how long tho. Also, when you fly a plane at twice the sound speed with a screen in front of you, you are already inside like a total simulated environment,
It's also not the speed one collects detailed intelligence in, which was the subject.
Let's say an hostile space alien invasion happen in 10 years : would it not be better to not sacrifice human at all in the fight?
> Also for surveillance/intelligence roles a human on board can have a better overview and decide where to go.
With technology, we can create an arbitrary numbers of new sensing capabilities into the machine. A human will be surpassed by a machine before our generation passes away.