maned

But it seems all they care about is that you could actually compete with maned planes' pilots.

Crossbows on the other hand could be maned by anyone and were usable in a few days.

In lots of ways unmanned is actually simpler than maned, as the US army knows.

Great advances in science are pinned on a few extraordinary white-maned individuals.

So while maned aircraft are still limited by the pilots all of the rest of those tend to improve as you scale up aircraft size.

I'm not sure how Nate got the feeling that I'm against maned space flight?

It was used primarily for maned missions.

Conan himself is quite often described in way that is ambiguous, but certainly includes both things like thick maned, long armed, barrel-chested, and even gorilla like.

Described as black maned, hairy, sometimes to the point of fur, and in his latter years, as with it falling like a coat of silver over his back.

Certainly, but one the main aircraft manufacturer announcing that they can re-purpose existing jet fighter as UAV as a reasonable cost (and possibly develop cheap dual maned/unmaned aircraft in the future) is likely to retain a certain number of customer and/or gain some other.

We still have trains driven by people, planes flown by pilots, factory floors maned by workers, tills handled by cashiers, cars that dont drive themselves, we dont yet have robots coming to our door, and so on.