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Post by OGBoardPoster2005 on May 21, 2009 15:31:55 GMT -5
It's times like this it occurs to me that we were lied to by "The Jetsons." According to that show we were suppose to be tooling around in flying cars by now. You see any flying cars lately? That's the problem with TV, it always lies to us.
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Post by Magician under the moonlight on May 21, 2009 16:04:53 GMT -5
How about we make hovering cars first?
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Post by Silent Brad on May 21, 2009 16:58:04 GMT -5
Iunno. But what if a German scientist came up to you and said "I have invented the flying car and I'll give it to you on one condition"?
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Post by paulbearer on May 21, 2009 17:15:51 GMT -5
Fransisco Scaramanga invented one as early as 1974....lol Then there's MASK & they also invented helmets with special powers
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Post by Franchise on May 21, 2009 19:57:59 GMT -5
It's times like this it occurs to me that we were lied to by "The Jetsons." According to that show we were suppose to be tooling around in flying cars by now. You see any flying cars lately? That's the problem with TV, it always lies to us. Kinda-sorta beat me to it... Language warning, kids.
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Post by TheDieselTrain on May 21, 2009 20:00:38 GMT -5
Iunno. But what if a German scientist came up to you and said "I have invented the flying car and I'll give it to you on one condition"? What's the condition?
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Post by Paul Servo on May 21, 2009 20:10:31 GMT -5
The Stone Cutters
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Post by MiLB Fan on May 21, 2009 20:13:44 GMT -5
Kind of strange that "The Future" is now almost 10 years ago. 2000 was such a big deal for so long, now it's just another relic of the past. Weird, isn't it? When I was a kid, the year 2000 seemed so futuristic to me. I thought we'd be living in cities like the one in the "Neon Nightriders" level on Ninja Turtles IV. I think the level is set in AD 2020, so I guess there's a very remote possibility that a city like that could exist.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on May 21, 2009 20:15:39 GMT -5
I'll say what my friend once said I don't care about other people... I just want a flying car.
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Post by FrankGotch on May 21, 2009 20:21:04 GMT -5
Because we can't find a cheap efficient way to mass produce, and market them yet. We have the technology to make them right now, the problem is that putting them on the market right now would be highly impractical, because they would be bulky, dangerous, unreliable, and expensive. The good news is that we can build them, they do work, and some day we may in fact have flying cars once they solve the problems that I mentioned.
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Post by GuyOfOwnage on May 21, 2009 20:23:24 GMT -5
It's times like this it occurs to me that we were lied to by "The Jetsons." According to that show we were suppose to be tooling around in flying cars by now. You see any flying cars lately? That's the problem with TV, it always lies to us. Kinda-sorta beat me to it... Language warning, kids. Beat me to it.
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Post by Tyfo on May 21, 2009 20:31:15 GMT -5
Do you really want redneck Jimmy down the street to tip back some moonshine and then hit the air in his flying car right over your house?
Or Granny forgets her glasses and accidentally takes her sleeping meds instead of her arthritis meds and then jumps in the ol' flying car.
Or Junior gets his license and decides to head to the air.
I would really rather limit the amount of people in the air. Were deadly enough on the ground.
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Post by FrankGotch on May 21, 2009 21:00:57 GMT -5
Do you really want redneck Jimmy down the street to tip back some moonshine and then hit the air in his flying car right over your house? Or Granny forgets her glasses and accidentally takes her sleeping meds instead of her arthritis meds and then jumps in the ol' flying car. Or Junior gets his license and decides to head to the air. I would really rather limit the amount of people in the air. Were deadly enough on the ground. When/If we ever have flying cars its very unlikely that they will be piloted manually for the vast majority of time that they are in the air. It would mostly be a matter of picking your destination and then letting the car take you.
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Post by Cap'n Crud on May 21, 2009 21:24:37 GMT -5
The 1# Reason:It's hard enough to trust Grandma driving an '88 Impala at speeds over 20mhp. Imagine giving Granny a flying DeLorean that uses a Nuclear Power Source and 1.21 jiggawats. Our Society and probably the entire world would be ashes within minutes. Not to mention nobody wants a flying DeLorean in their bedroom.
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Post by Magician under the moonlight on May 21, 2009 21:28:43 GMT -5
The 1# Reason:It's hard enough to trust Grandma driving an '88 Impala at speeds over 20mhp. Imagine giving Granny a flying DeLorean that uses a Nuclear Power Source and 1.21 jiggawats. Our Society and probably the entire world would be ashes within minutes. Not to mention nobody wants a flying DeLorean in their bedroom. I would only if it time travels.
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Post by Mehe is F'n hardcore. on May 21, 2009 21:37:59 GMT -5
THis is why;
(I know someone already quoted it, I just want to share the entire hilarity.)
Randal: It’s times like this it occurs to me that we were lied to by “The Jetsons”.
Dante: What are you talking about?
Randal: According to that show we were suppose to be tooling around in flying cars by now. You see any flying cars lately? That’s the problem with TV, it always lies to us.
Dante: Yeah, well most of us rational thinkers weren’t banking on a cartoon to offer us a viable glimpse into the future of technological development.
Randal: You don’t think anyone anywhere is working on the flying car.
Dante: I could care less.
Randal: I gotta believe that there is somebody else out there is thinking about the flying car besides me. Someone who is not afraid to throw their hats over the wall for the good of mankind.
Dante: What’s that suppose to mean?
Randal: Throw their hats over the wall. It means committing to doing something. If more people threw their hats over the wall, we wouldn’t be sitting here in this mess right now. We would be zooming over it in the flying car.
Dante: I see you have given this alot of thought.
Randal: Kennedy, all right JFK himself. When he was in office, he stood before the world and promised them a man on the moon within 10 years. Thing is nobody had started working on a space program at that point. JFK had no data to back up his claims, no inside into the practicality of space travel. But you know what he had?
Dante: Marilyn Monroe.
Randal: The man had sac. The man had the sac to stand before the world and say “Yo, yo get this we’re going to the moon.” Imagine, if you and I were the kind of guys who had the sac to stand before the world and say “Get this we’ll all be in the flying car by the end of the year.
Dante: Do you know you have a one track mind.
Randal: Hey, what would you be willing to trade for the flying car?
Dante: What do you mean?
Randal: Say some German scientist comes up to you and he says “I have invented the flying car. I’ll give it to you on one condition.”
Dante: Well, what’s the condition?
Randal: He’s not going to tell you.
Dante: Then it’s no deal.
Randal: The guy is offering you the flying car.
Dante: Yeah, but there is obviously a catch.
Randal: Who cares what the catch is, it’s the flying car. You’ll have the only one in the world.
Dante: And why is this... German scientist
Randal: Ya, vol.
Dante: Why is he offering it to me for free instead of the car companies instead?
Randal: What is this “Murder She Wrote”? Who cares what's behind the mystery. You going to look a gift horse in the mouth? Just take the car man.
Dante: Not until I know what the catch is.
Randal: Fine, the catch is you got to cut off a foot.
Dante: No way.
Randal: Are you saying you wouldn’t cut off your foot for the flying car? You’re that selfish.
Dante: It’s my foot! How am I suppose to walk?
Randal: What walk? You’ll have the flying car. Good God, you could sell the design and engineering secrets to the car companies and be a multibillionaire. After that you could buy like 50 prosthetic feet.
Dante: Which foot, right or left?
Randal: You’re choice
Dante: Ok, I’ll trade my left foot for the flying car.
Randal: Why your left foot?
Dante: Oh, it’s got an ingrown toenail.
Randal: Listen to you. A guy offers you the Fire from Olympus that is the flying car and you trade him a bum foot.
Dante: You said I could pick.
Randal: So it’s a deal then, your foot for the flying car. You’re sure?
Dante: Yes, I’m sure.
Randal: You can’t welch.
Dante: I won’t welch.
Randal: Because the whole world is counting on you.
Dante: Why the whole world all of a sudden?
Randal: Because the German scientist held a press conference when he made you the offer. He told the world media once the trade is made. You can do whatever you want with the flying car. Including mass marketing an affordable model for consumer purchase.
Dante: What the hell kind of scientist is this guy anyways?
Randal: One with a lot of free time on his hands and a foot fetish. So are you in? You going to do the right thing here?
Dante: Yes.
Randal: So it’s a deal.
Dante: Yes.
Randal: Ok, so then what happens is you find out the guy is going to take your foot off with a hacksaw.
Dante: What?
Randal: And no atheistic.
Dante: Aww, screw that!
Randal: Come on it’s part of the deal.
Dante: You didn’t say that before!
Randal: Well, you should of paid a lawyer look over the contract. But come on, it only hurts when they’re taking the foot off. After that they’ll use a local on your stump and cauterize the wound.
Dante: Well why can’t I have a local before he cuts it off?
Randal: Because, he is a sick degenerate that likes to inflict pain.
Dante: You said he was a man of science!
Randal: You don’t think Einstein didn’t like hacking guys feet off but, nobody ever said anything about it because he was one of the great thinkers of our time. But come on man. Take a hit for the team. It’s a few seconds of pain for a lifetime of riches and zero traffic.
Dante: Fine, as long as I get the local as soon as he is done cutting,
Randal: So you want the local?
Dante: Who am I, The Marquis De Sade? Yes, I want the local.
Randal: All right.
Dante: Why do you say it like that for?
Randal: It’s just the local he gives you, knocks you out and when your out he diddles you pennie.
Dante: Oh, come on!
Randal: Hey man, you made the deal.
Dante: To trade my foot for the flying car, not to be tortured and molested by some mad German scientist.
Randal: And his friends.
Dante: What?
Randal: It’s just when he is done with you he gives his friends a shot at you too.
Dante: Deals off.
Randal: What are you some kind of homophobe?
Dante: No, I just don’t want to be diddled by some insane German scientist and his friends after they’ve hacked my foot off.
Randal: Need I remind you, this is for the flying car!
Dante: It ain’t worth it.
Randal: See, you’re what’s wrong with this country, hell with this world. You’re always thinking about your own comfort level. Never thinking about the rest of us. This country was built on sacrifice and nearly 30 years of living a life full of selfish foot pampering and intergender intercourse has made you too soft to throw your hat over the wall for the good of mankind. And what’s worse is, not only do you ruin it for the rest of us with the flying car, but you completely blow the notion of American nobility in the process. The children of the world have no heroic figure to emulate. So the future of mankind continues on it’s downward spiral into entropy and mass extinction until all that was once great about the human race lies buried in the primordial stew to which we’ll most certainly return. Thanks to you and ill refusal to reach for the stars and you’ll forever be remembered as the sad footnote in the book of life. The wimpy little scumbag who could of breached the chasm of becoming and being. But instead opted to cover his own ass and foot in the process.
Dante: All right! I’ll go through with the deal. I’ll let the German scientist hack my foot off. Then him and his friends can have their way with me. All for the flying car.
Randal: You would do it with a bunch of guys just to get a car. I thought I knew you man.
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Post by slasher911 on May 21, 2009 22:05:23 GMT -5
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Post by rchi84 on May 23, 2009 7:22:29 GMT -5
on a serious note, there was this article that i saw on some website, when the Iron Man had come out, where he basically said that the amount of energy needed for Tony stark to fly like he did in the movie, would need huge amounts of energy. that's the biggest problem with flying cars. we need a source of energy thats efficient and abundant.
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Post by amsiraK on May 23, 2009 8:44:53 GMT -5
He's only one man... LOL And I'm still waiting for George Francisco and family to land.
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Post by Avalanche Alvarez on May 23, 2009 10:03:42 GMT -5
Might be a silly question to some but i'm being totally serious really why dont we have them yet? Growing up like most of you I woulda have at least thought we'd have them by the year 2000. We have airplanes and rocket ships as air born transportation but whats stopping the creation of flying cars? People can't drive on paved roads. Do you really want to see what would happen if they were allowed to pilot a vehicle capable of flight? Not while I'm anywhere near, thank you very much.
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