Redundant Navigators
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Redundant Navigators
See on the news this morning that robots have now supplanted navs in yet another role
Burger flipping
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I heard the flipping robot lasted only one day. Could not stand the heat over the grill. Also had a hard time centering the meat on the bun!
Also was expected to cook 2000 hamburgers daily.
Also was expected to cook 2000 hamburgers daily.
The robot could easily beat me on the Weber: SWMBO will not countenance them in house or garden and heyho I have to settle for a steak or a chop.
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I heard the flipping robot lasted only one day. Could not stand the heat over the grill. Also had a hard time centering the meat on the bun!]
It’s all right, stick monkeys are equally threatened in the news this week...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hVESPNDVOk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hVESPNDVOk
Chimp: (Thinks) "Hope the monkey knows how to land this thing!"
Robots NOT
Deja vu one mo' time, huh ?
I only flew with "help" for a few hundred hours in the VooDoo. We lowly pilots were not allowed to mess around with the high tech radar system, so the guy in the back seat operated the avionics ( except the radio and autopilot and tacan). Alledgedly, the RIO was also a "navigator", but I saw a few times that worried me, heh heh.
Our main job was to fly the plane, make radio calls, land the plane ( blowing snow, 20 kt crosswind, etc) and " steer the dot" once the RIO had a good lock on. Seems to me hat the pilot could have been a robot.
And then I went single seat for anothe 3,500 hours in three different jets. So for awhile it was brutal, but by early 70's the avionics came to replace the human navigator. I still had to follow orders, fly the jet, hit the target, land it in blowing snow with a crosswind, and all the things we human pilots were supposed to do.
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I really like Flippy, but too expensive for my BBQ on the patio. Also, Flippy doesn't know all the hot dates at our old TDY bases.
Oh well, those days are gone and we should just let them go.
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I only flew with "help" for a few hundred hours in the VooDoo. We lowly pilots were not allowed to mess around with the high tech radar system, so the guy in the back seat operated the avionics ( except the radio and autopilot and tacan). Alledgedly, the RIO was also a "navigator", but I saw a few times that worried me, heh heh.
Our main job was to fly the plane, make radio calls, land the plane ( blowing snow, 20 kt crosswind, etc) and " steer the dot" once the RIO had a good lock on. Seems to me hat the pilot could have been a robot.
And then I went single seat for anothe 3,500 hours in three different jets. So for awhile it was brutal, but by early 70's the avionics came to replace the human navigator. I still had to follow orders, fly the jet, hit the target, land it in blowing snow with a crosswind, and all the things we human pilots were supposed to do.
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I really like Flippy, but too expensive for my BBQ on the patio. Also, Flippy doesn't know all the hot dates at our old TDY bases.
Oh well, those days are gone and we should just let them go.
Gums muses....
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or perhaps not.... Flippy works one day then takes leave...
https://mashable.com/2018/03/10/flip.../#D9zyEj.fCaqc
https://mashable.com/2018/03/10/flip.../#D9zyEj.fCaqc
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It’s all right, stick monkeys are equally threatened in the news this week...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hVESPNDVOk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hVESPNDVOk
I'm drawing the line at grooming my copilot for fleas. (0:33)
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It's looking like another part of their trade is being mechanised too.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20140107868
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https://patents.google.com/patent/US20140107868
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