It does offer certain advantages. For one thing, you aren't tied to the supply of tutors. For another, you aren't tied to where the tutors are.
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It does offer certain advantages. For one thing, you aren't tied to the supply of tutors. For another, you aren't tied to where the tutors are.
But no time advantage. You're not going to learn a subject faster with computer instruction.
I would think the CAL would BE the tutor. Enough of a personality overlay and you'd never know it was a computer. Running you through simulation after simulation and tracking failures and adjusting the difficulty SHOULD be faster. A living tutor gets fatigue - a computer doesn't. So the trainee can learn at their own pace and not a live tutor's pace.
Learning is less about the speed of the teacher (not saying that can't be a factor, it certainly can be, but it's more the skill of the teacher in teaching and less the speed) and more about the ability to absorb and consolidate on the part of the learner - there's a real value in downtime and letting the brain percolate and make connections. There might be some speed gains, but overall I wouldn't expect it to be significant.
Learning is thinking which requires burning calories and creates fatigue (mental and physical). Sans any other magic tech it can only happen so fast.
D.
Instructor fatigue is usually less an issue than student fatigue.
And still not nearly as effective as the instructor one can access.
CAI is far better than CBI until on gets to true AI.
marginaleye
SOC-12
Hello, Mr. Musk?
Here's an option that isn't on the list:
Board the ship.
Take many, many photographs.
Pocket a few small pieces of equipment that are obviously the products of superior extraterrestrial technology and are unlikely to be immediately missed by the crew if they return after I leave.
I doubt I'll able to access the ship's computer (it's probably protected by passwords and/or biometric identification, and I won't understand how its operating system works). It's reasonable, however, to think that there will be some hard-copy manuals be aboard, and accessible. Flip through them and take a few hundred more pictures (presumably, the manuals will be in Galanglic and Vilani -- isn't Third Imperium bilingual, like Canada? -- so I won't be able to read them, but illustrations and diagrams will give some indication of the content).
Get in touch with Elon Musk.
One sample mystery-gadget and hard-copy images of few pages from the manuals in a nice little package should be adequate bona fides to arrange a meeting.
Here's an option that isn't on the list:
Board the ship.
Take many, many photographs.
Pocket a few small pieces of equipment that are obviously the products of superior extraterrestrial technology and are unlikely to be immediately missed by the crew if they return after I leave.
I doubt I'll able to access the ship's computer (it's probably protected by passwords and/or biometric identification, and I won't understand how its operating system works). It's reasonable, however, to think that there will be some hard-copy manuals be aboard, and accessible. Flip through them and take a few hundred more pictures (presumably, the manuals will be in Galanglic and Vilani -- isn't Third Imperium bilingual, like Canada? -- so I won't be able to read them, but illustrations and diagrams will give some indication of the content).
Get in touch with Elon Musk.
One sample mystery-gadget and hard-copy images of few pages from the manuals in a nice little package should be adequate bona fides to arrange a meeting.
Depends on the form of the manuals. There are businesses at this Tech Level that are going paperless. The manual might only be on an iPad type of display and not a printout.
I'm not sure whether to be proud or disappointed, but no one voted;
"Run screaming like a little girl and hide in a cave for the rest of your life."
"Run screaming like a little girl and hide in a cave for the rest of your life."
Any interstellar species that wanted us dead could do so from orbit, and there's not much we could do about it.
If the ship's abandoned, odds are either the crew died of something which, upon discovering it, I have already been exposed to, or they ran out of food or oxygen, neither of which will remain an issue while grounded with doors open.
I've had enough roleplay experience to know that the cave is the second most likely place for the monster that took out the crew to be hiding - right after the ship itself.
Winged Cat
SOC-10
Yeah. And if the ship is indeed abandoned, that means the crew probably ain't coming back.
My answer ("get my friends, learn how to fly", etc.) hinges on this being me, IRL on a pre-TL 9 world with no other access to FTL, who finds it. I would almost certainly need assistance to reverse engineer it, to the point of being able to make more scouts. That requires a lot of friends...but then, once new ones are being made, I go explore with it (or one of the replicas, if the original is no longer functioning after reverse engineering).
BRJN
SOC-12
Do something else:
Video everything and run every possible instrument scan I can think of, in what I believe to be the engine room.
Take the data to an engineering firm. Show them the clip from Star Trek IV about transparent aluminum, ending with Scotty saying "So, is it worth somethin' to ya?"
Royalties on Grav plates and J-Drive ought to set me up financially for life.
Video everything and run every possible instrument scan I can think of, in what I believe to be the engine room.
Take the data to an engineering firm. Show them the clip from Star Trek IV about transparent aluminum, ending with Scotty saying "So, is it worth somethin' to ya?"
Royalties on Grav plates and J-Drive ought to set me up financially for life.
Well, presuming that the government would allow me to keep it as salvage (yeah, right): I figure I could get NASA to pay quite substantial charter-fees to have someone transport both scientists (with private staterooms) and equipment to other Solar System bodies (to say nothing of other star systems) for research purposes, and still come in well under the current cost of launching unmanned probes.
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Get there substantionaly faster to.
Voyager is going to be near another solar system in I think this is close 47,000 years.
Precisely, and with heavier payload capacity. Move heavy scientific equipment around the Solar System (whose maximum weight is not limited by modern chemical rocket delta-V considerations) in a matter of days instead of years, and with the ability to ferry back-and-forth between Earth and the research site.
richard gorman
SOC-8
Other:
Alert world government leaders to the now indisputable fact that Marc Miller is clearly an alien or prescient psychic! Of course they probably already know that the sly lizardy alien devils...
Alert world government leaders to the now indisputable fact that Marc Miller is clearly an alien or prescient psychic! Of course they probably already know that the sly lizardy alien devils...
Shadow Shack
SOC-12
Paint it black and start exploring. Lots of Krylon but it's worth it.
Shadow Shack
SOC-12
I changed my vote.
Jump in, take off, and head into open space. Don my vacc-suit, engage the auto-evade program, and leap out the airlock. My close escort co-pilot picks me up and we chase after it, because my four gunners are in dire need of a good target practice session. :file_23:
Jump in, take off, and head into open space. Don my vacc-suit, engage the auto-evade program, and leap out the airlock. My close escort co-pilot picks me up and we chase after it, because my four gunners are in dire need of a good target practice session. :file_23:
