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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 3157080" data-attributes="member: 710">That is certainly true. Current plans for combat drones still retain the human as decision maker, but the drones can otherwise act autonomously. Decision Making would mean that the human controller would recieve sensor input, assign a target and command the drone to attack. ECM and ECCM can only be used to block communication. With cryptographic technology it should be easy to ensure that no false commands are given - especially in the time frame of a tactical situation. A Drone should be capable of hiding and evading without command, and it would then just need to have a way to break through ECM. With satellite surveillance and visual recognition and modelling software it should be possible to give the Drones orders before communication is blocked. I think there are still a&nbsp; lot of problems that need to be solved here which are fundamental problesm of &quot;human design&quot;. You can't power the brain with electricity, you need blood. And blood must be pumped through your venes, and high G's might make this impossible. And there might be more problems - the nature of the brain cells might cause it to take damage from high accelerations regardless of all tricks employed - though you can certainly stretch the boundaries. Another question might be a more ethical nature - is it ethical to modify soldiers (which are human beings after all) in this way? Keep in mind, a Pilot whose brain was removed from its body is basically a slave with no hope for doing something besides Piloting (unless the process is reversable, which I highly doubt). You definitely need a setting where ethical values are different then those today.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 3157080, member: 710"] That is certainly true. Current plans for combat drones still retain the human as decision maker, but the drones can otherwise act autonomously. Decision Making would mean that the human controller would recieve sensor input, assign a target and command the drone to attack. ECM and ECCM can only be used to block communication. With cryptographic technology it should be easy to ensure that no false commands are given - especially in the time frame of a tactical situation. A Drone should be capable of hiding and evading without command, and it would then just need to have a way to break through ECM. With satellite surveillance and visual recognition and modelling software it should be possible to give the Drones orders before communication is blocked. I think there are still a lot of problems that need to be solved here which are fundamental problesm of "human design". You can't power the brain with electricity, you need blood. And blood must be pumped through your venes, and high G's might make this impossible. And there might be more problems - the nature of the brain cells might cause it to take damage from high accelerations regardless of all tricks employed - though you can certainly stretch the boundaries. Another question might be a more ethical nature - is it ethical to modify soldiers (which are human beings after all) in this way? Keep in mind, a Pilot whose brain was removed from its body is basically a slave with no hope for doing something besides Piloting (unless the process is reversable, which I highly doubt). You definitely need a setting where ethical values are different then those today. [/QUOTE]

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