On 19-2-2014 22:34, nemesis wrote:
> James Holsenback <nom### [at] nonecom> wrote:
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26258971
>>
>> OK cool tech at work here ... lot's of engineering reasons why this is a
>> great idea, but for some reason I don't like it one bit!
>>
>> It seems that some of the early sci-fi writers got it right ... we're
>> headed of world that actually seeing something first hand is going the
>> way of the dodo. Instead we'll get some sensors view. Sure there are
>> /plenty/ of other examples, but this one just caught my eye.
>
> in this case makes perfect sense:  you can display beautifully symetric sunset
> scenery while the airplane is spiraling down out of control :)
>
Or you play the footage of the best ever recorded flight form ethiopia 
to rome, so nobody notices they ended up in geneva.


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