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Absolutely no difference. It's not a romantic private travel. It's a piloting job. A spacecraft pilot is a pilot specially trained to pilot a craft. They are hired from the aircraft pilots btw, and keep piloting the aircrafts. It's exactly like a horse or dog training. It's trained once for exact set of actions and reflexes. The pilot doesn't have a time to think. He's trained to react in non-standard situations following the things he was trained to. The pilot follows the flight plan (unless he is a farmer on his private Cessna.) If the situation doesn't match the flight plan, he should follow instructions. The primary goal of everything in the aviation is the flight safety. It's a religion. If he didn't follow the instructions he gets suspended from flying until the investigation gets finished.

Even the cats could argue about that, but wouldn't in sake of their profit. Very egoistic and cruel cuties. And they are one of the most clever of them, let alone others. *** Cephalopodes can't develop technology, as they can't live outside of water. Elephants can't do anything staying big, but once they get smaller, they will be a soft prey for any predator. Cetaceans are deer, just big and reduced. Except the dolphins, who are much more violent beasts than the tales tell. They just don't treat a human neither as a prey, nor as a danger.

The computer is just a tool helping the (air)craft commander do his work. Any decision is the commander's responsibility. He wasn't blind, and the autopilot wasn't forcing him to land.

What if human is the most moral, and they are much worse? To put it simply, choosing between the destruction of all human life or all non-human life is no different than choosing between Coke or Pepsi. I could make an argument like this (in favor of saving humanity) The very fact of being making choice and explaining it is telling.

Prestidigitator A fast digital computer.

I didn't. You described the action sequence of how exactly the pilot was violating the rules. That's a technical question.

The best respect is that it's used to this day. Though, as a combat missile it was almost harmless, and there were just five open ground launchpads with it. R-9 was a better attempt, and R-16 was what is really an ICBM. So, was the place chosen wrong, or did the autopilot miss? But in any case, if the runway is obstructed, the pilot must abort landing and follow the plan B, unless he is falling and doesn't have a choice. It's aviation, just without air. Not private dog sleds and biplanes of Scott and Amundsen. Another Apollo-10 landing simulation mission would be much less painful for NASA (the ship owner) than a catastrophe. Remember, how many years were the Challenger and Columbia investigated. NASA would just land on the Moon several months later.

Was it on his flightplan "Land it anywhere on stones"? Or was his objective to land the craft at the designated area or at any other place which provide the craft and the crew safety? The Operation Unthinkable was being planned exactly in case SU wins WW2. In case it lost, there would be Operation like Atlantic Dunkirk and then B-36 nuke bombing of the Europe. Never. R-7 is a forced attempt to build an ICBM from what you have right now. US had enough time and economics to build a more trivial rocket, like Atlas. All his life Korolyov was mostly an administrator. His snatching would give NASA a pain.

I said "are bro", not "are". And that's why do we think that rats are clever. They just operate in same manner with us.

Banned by the Asiaudition Feastival.

Calling 911 because it's the only working button on the found cellphone.

Banned by Trivision 15

Just remembered, a classics on topic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Running

The rodents are primates' bro. And they have separated about 70 mln years ago. 50 mln years later the Earth will become hardly habitable for the highly organized lifeforms, and 250 mln years ago only the simplest ones will be living here. So, there is no time left for another attempt, and the human species is probably the first and the last endemic sapient species here. *** Also, one more dilemma for those who prefer the green button. So, you are ready to die to allow another species replace you? Then why not gift your home and all money to anyone right now?

About the maniac dilemma. An evil maniac dilemma: after the asked one has done the choice, shoot noone and go away, leaving them to discuss.

It's a problem of the aliens that they've still not presented themselves to us, so we could treat them as humans.

LaundRover That beeper on the washing machine that informs you than the laundry is over.

Banned for vivisecting the dissections.

An excellent example of how far the mass-suicidal "humans-are-evil" "green" propaganda has gone. Looks like just one from Russia is voting for the humanity survival.

The navicomp is just a piloting tool like any autopilot. The pilot has a flight plan, and follows the objectives. If the flight plan says "land on the airstrip A", and the autopilot missed it, then the pilot still must follow the flight plan. If he can't reach the airstrip A, he should not land on the trees and rocks next to it when it's possible to follow the flightplan and pass to the backup airdrome (the orbit in this case). If an aircraft was landed on trees just because it could, the pilot would be very probably disqualified.

Banned for being re-as-on-able. ("again as on able"? idk what does it mean, honestly.)

Another nuka-positive

Back in my day vampires were antagonists.

Do not forget next time to warn Jeb that the stolen snacks are loaded with sleeping pills and laxative.

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