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** There's a ''lot'' of back-and-forth over whether future aircraft should be manned or unmanned, as a lot of people are understandably wary of autonomous weapons platforms flying around with high explosives on board. Presumably, EDI and the Talons were separate development programs, maybe even competitors for the same contract - a hypersonic, piloted jet aircraft, and then an unmanned, hypersonic, autonomous weapons platform with a learning AI that wasn't ready for testing until well after the Talons were ready. EDI has a cockpit with a control stick, so the airframe was apparently designed first and the AI controlling it was added later. Cummings is also probably exaggerating to Gannon when he says that EDI is the whole idea.
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* EDI downloads every song ever and chooses a very generic sounding song for any time it pulls of a RideOfTheValkyries moment. Why not pick something a little less dull?
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* EDI downloads every song ever and chooses a very generic sounding song for any time it pulls of a RideOfTheValkyries "Music/RideOfTheValkyries" moment. Why not pick something a little less dull?
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** And to serve as a kind of... backup plan if EDI were to go rogue.
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* EDI downloads every song ever and chooses a very generic sounding song for any time it pulls of a RideOfTheValkyries moment. Why not pick something a little less dull?
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* EDI downloads every song ever and chooses a very generic sounding song for any time it pulls of a RideOfTheValkyries moment. Why not pick something a little less dull?dull?
** EDI is a ''learning'' program. It's smart, but it still needs guidance to make the correct decisions, at least initially. EDI would need time to develop a taste for music. Until then, generic music was the best it could select.
** EDI is a ''learning'' program. It's smart, but it still needs guidance to make the correct decisions, at least initially. EDI would need time to develop a taste for music. Until then, generic music was the best it could select.
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** Because the Talons were also hypersonic-capable and (apparently) on a whole new level of stealthy. If nothing else, they needed the Talons to keep up with EDI while the computer was learning.
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* Captain Cummings claims that "EDI is the whole point" of the brand-new anti-terrorist unit he's in charge of. Then why the heck did they spend money on the F/A-37 Talon? There's nothing they do (besides [[JustPlaneWrong defy physics]] and try to invoke RuleOfCool) that three Super Hornets couldn't have accomplished just as easily.
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* Captain Cummings claims that "EDI is the whole point" of the brand-new anti-terrorist unit he's in charge of. Then why the heck did they spend money on the F/A-37 Talon? There's nothing they do (besides [[JustPlaneWrong defy physics]] and try to invoke RuleOfCool) that three Super Hornets couldn't have accomplished just as easily.easily.
* EDI downloads every song ever and chooses a very generic sounding song for any time it pulls of a RideOfTheValkyries moment. Why not pick something a little less dull?
* EDI downloads every song ever and chooses a very generic sounding song for any time it pulls of a RideOfTheValkyries moment. Why not pick something a little less dull?
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* File this under YouFailGeographyForever: In the climax of the film, two of our heroes fly into North Korea to rescue their female compatriot, who has been [[TrappedByMountainLions Trapped By The Korean People's Army]] for most of the third act. They kill the North Korean troops that are persuing her, and everybody celebrates their victory... [[FridgeLogic Never mind that they now simply need to worry about escaping North Korea]], with all of their choices for escaping the country involving heavily patrolled land borders or heavily patrolled waters.
** I was under the impression that fixed position EDI helps neutralize ''was'' such a heavily patrolled land border.
** Which only leaves a few miles of minefields and barbed wire. [[TheNeutralZone The Demilitarized Zone]] is infamously one of the most heavily fortified pieces of real estate in the world.
** I was under the impression that fixed position EDI helps neutralize ''was'' such a heavily patrolled land border.
** Which only leaves a few miles of minefields and barbed wire. [[TheNeutralZone The Demilitarized Zone]] is infamously one of the most heavily fortified pieces of real estate in the world.
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** Which only leaves a few miles of minefields and barbed wire. [[TheNeutralZone The Demilitarized Zone]] is infamously one of the most heavily fortified pieces of real estate in the world.
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** Which only leaves a few miles of minefields and barbed wire. [[TheNeutralZone The Demilitarized Zone]] is infamously one of the most heavily fortified pieces of real estate in the world.world.
* Captain Cummings claims that "EDI is the whole point" of the brand-new anti-terrorist unit he's in charge of. Then why the heck did they spend money on the F/A-37 Talon? There's nothing they do (besides [[JustPlaneWrong defy physics]] and try to invoke RuleOfCool) that three Super Hornets couldn't have accomplished just as easily.
* Captain Cummings claims that "EDI is the whole point" of the brand-new anti-terrorist unit he's in charge of. Then why the heck did they spend money on the F/A-37 Talon? There's nothing they do (besides [[JustPlaneWrong defy physics]] and try to invoke RuleOfCool) that three Super Hornets couldn't have accomplished just as easily.
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** I was under the impression that fixed position EDI helps neutralize ''was'' such a heavily patrolled land border.
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** I was under the impression that fixed position EDI helps neutralize ''was'' such a heavily patrolled land border.border.
** Which only leaves a few miles of minefields and barbed wire. [[TheNeutralZone The Demilitarized Zone]] is infamously one of the most heavily fortified pieces of real estate in the world.
** Which only leaves a few miles of minefields and barbed wire. [[TheNeutralZone The Demilitarized Zone]] is infamously one of the most heavily fortified pieces of real estate in the world.
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* File this under YouFailGeographyForever: In the climax of the film, two of our heroes fly into North Korea to rescue their female compatriot, who has been [[TrappedByMountainLions Trapped By The Korean People's Army]] for most of the third act. They kill the North Korean troops that are persuing her, and everybody celebrates their victory... [[FridgeLogic Never mind that they now simply need to worry about escaping North Korea]], with all of their choices for escaping the country involving heavily patrolled land borders or heavily patrolled waters.
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* File this under YouFailGeographyForever: In the climax of the film, two of our heroes fly into North Korea to rescue their female compatriot, who has been [[TrappedByMountainLions Trapped By The Korean People's Army]] for most of the third act. They kill the North Korean troops that are persuing her, and everybody celebrates their victory... [[FridgeLogic Never mind that they now simply need to worry about escaping North Korea]], with all of their choices for escaping the country involving heavily patrolled land borders or heavily patrolled waters.waters.
** I was under the impression that fixed position EDI helps neutralize ''was'' such a heavily patrolled land border.
** I was under the impression that fixed position EDI helps neutralize ''was'' such a heavily patrolled land border.
