Pilotless airplanes. Would you fly in one?

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Would you go up with nobody in the cockpit?

Sure, whatever
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48%
No way in hell
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19%
Not even with a pilot (the JimC option)
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10%
Bacon
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No votes
Cheese
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No votes
Other (explain, please)
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24%
 
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Re: Pilotless airplanes. Would you fly in one?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Mar 29, 2012 1:09 pm

:sigh: So few of the really interesting birds left.
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Post by Svartalf » Thu Mar 29, 2012 1:16 pm

You know what? when "intersting" is synonymous with "dangerous", I can live with dull.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Mar 29, 2012 1:19 pm

Svartalf wrote:You know what? when "intersting" is synonymous with "dangerous", I can live with dull.
You don't live with dull, you exist with dull.

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Re: Pilotless airplanes. Would you fly in one?

Post by FBM » Thu Mar 29, 2012 1:19 pm

Svartalf wrote:You know what? when "intersting" is synonymous with "dangerous", I can live with dull.
Not sure the thing-a-ma-jig laklak was describing can go fast enough to produce a fatal crash.
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Re: Pilotless airplanes. Would you fly in one?

Post by Svartalf » Thu Mar 29, 2012 1:24 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:
Svartalf wrote:You know what? when "intersting" is synonymous with "dangerous", I can live with dull.
You don't live with dull, you exist with dull.

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Havent found the kind of hazardous activities that makes me want to agree with that motto.

Now, if I were a great swashbuckler and lived on a magical world, without the host of health problems I have (which would have made me very dead on most worlds without modern medicine anyway), I might see different.
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Re: Pilotless airplanes. Would you fly in one?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Mar 29, 2012 1:27 pm

Svartalf wrote:Havent found the kind of hazardous activities that makes me want to agree with that motto.
And that's why you are such a sad-sack. If you don't want to live, that's fine, huddle.
Now, if I had a Heron sword and lived on a magical world, without the host of health problems I have (which would have made me very dead on most worlds without modern medicine anyway), I might see different.
I went out with a high school diploma and a desire to do anything that came my way. I could write a dozen books about the three years that came after my graduation. And I wouldn't miss a moment of the pain if it meant I'd miss the wonders as well.
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Re: Pilotless airplanes. Would you fly in one?

Post by Svartalf » Thu Mar 29, 2012 1:29 pm

I've had little enough wonder in my life that I do mind the pain, which I have had a surfeit of anyway...
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Re: Pilotless airplanes. Would you fly in one?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Mar 29, 2012 1:31 pm

Svartalf wrote:I've had little enough wonder in my life that I do mind the pain, which I have had a surfeit of anyway...
You miss the point, without the risk, there is no reward. You quite prove that.
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