Well, as far as I am aware, this is already being done. The technique is called Kalman filtering (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filter) . What it essentially does is generate a model prediction with an estimated uncertainty (which could be based on airplane type, e.g. a jet fighter can do more drastic maneuvers than a 747 and thus the prediction is less certain) and it combines this prediction with measurements (again, based on an estimated uncertainty). Combining this with a weighting scheme (thus artificially setting the model or measurement uncertainty to be more or less uncertain than it really is) will provide a method of doing what you suggest.
You could set the chip to a certain weighting scheme (i.e. forcing the measurements to have more or less impact on the model) just before launch based on the target you are firing on.
The analogy doesn't prove your point. You're saying that looking at a photograph is nothing like looking at the person with your own eyes. That's just because the information your eyes are receiving is constantly being updated. Indeed, alot of information is being lost and distorted, but that is simply because you perceive more information than can be contained in the photo.
And even if this was so, the light has to be altered before is reaches your eyes, so that is still in the past.
It was in Nature last week, some mesozoic mammal which had skin flaps for gliding. Given the artist impressions, it looked like on of those gliding squirrels to me.
Stupid thing was that they had already found the fossil but misinterpreted it, concluded it was some kind of very common mammal and therefore probably used it as a display piece on someones desk, which eventually made the discovery possible. Sometimes a little luck is all you need....
As for this mammal, why couldn't it be real? The type for deformation is apparently rather common and now we have found a fossil of some embryo with it. It's probably really fun to find, very interesting, but no scientific breakthrough or anything.
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Well, as far as I am aware, this is already being done. The technique is called Kalman filtering (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filter) . What it essentially does is generate a model prediction with an estimated uncertainty (which could be based on airplane type, e.g. a jet fighter can do more drastic maneuvers than a 747 and thus the prediction is less certain) and it combines this prediction with measurements (again, based on an estimated uncertainty). Combining this with a weighting scheme (thus artificially setting the model or measurement uncertainty to be more or less uncertain than it really is) will provide a method of doing what you suggest. You could set the chip to a certain weighting scheme (i.e. forcing the measurements to have more or less impact on the model) just before launch based on the target you are firing on.
The analogy doesn't prove your point. You're saying that looking at a photograph is nothing like looking at the person with your own eyes. That's just because the information your eyes are receiving is constantly being updated. Indeed, alot of information is being lost and distorted, but that is simply because you perceive more information than can be contained in the photo. And even if this was so, the light has to be altered before is reaches your eyes, so that is still in the past.
It was in Nature last week, some mesozoic mammal which had skin flaps for gliding. Given the artist impressions, it looked like on of those gliding squirrels to me. Stupid thing was that they had already found the fossil but misinterpreted it, concluded it was some kind of very common mammal and therefore probably used it as a display piece on someones desk, which eventually made the discovery possible. Sometimes a little luck is all you need.... As for this mammal, why couldn't it be real? The type for deformation is apparently rather common and now we have found a fossil of some embryo with it. It's probably really fun to find, very interesting, but no scientific breakthrough or anything.