[gurps] TL10 hard science space background

[Troy Guffey]

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From: "Knapp" <magick.crow at gmail.com>

> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Onno Meyer <Onno.Meyer at gmx.de> wrote:
>> Still thinking about David's setting:
>>
>> * While unmanned craft are probably 'realistic' with the
>>  rules for TL10 robotics, I will concentrate on manned
>>  craft for playability. Assume that AIs ain't quite as
>>  smart as advertised, or whatever ...
>
> We currently have an airplane that can taxi, take off, and land
> without human help and with full air traffic but we make people do it
> because it is hard to sell load of passengers a ticket without having
> a human captain flying it. I read something many years ago about a
> flight that they did from CA USA to Australia and the only command
> radioed to the airplane was to fly a hold pattern because the air port
> was full.


Well, *routine* operations can be automated for us, but there are still 
mid-flight emergencies which auto-pilot only planes can't handle.  Like 
hydraulic failure (thus having to steer by engine manipulation), or 
ditching, or crash-landing.

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