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Re: Alien and gravity
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Wed, 18 Apr 2001 17:16:39 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, James Brown writes:
> Now, why a capital ship doesn't have a flight crew is a completely different
> mystery, although the Alien(s) universe does have an established history of
> mostly automated ships.
That's true, and a good point. For consistency's sake, I guess we could
posit that the automated ships aren't sufficiently savvy to drop from orbit
and land in hostile environments without some sort of ground-based guidance,
but even this makes us wonder why at least parts of the ship aren't as smart
as Bishop re: flight/landing.
Dave!
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| (...) I'd always understood it (aside from the dramatic necessities of the plot line) as a logical extension of the colonial marine mentality of "be prepared". It may well be more economical in the long run to send a ship that can do 95% of what (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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