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When will sci-fi tech become real? Sooner than you think
CNN ^ | March 25, 2011 | Doug Gross

Posted on 03/26/2011 9:50:00 AM PDT by EveningStar

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1 posted on 03/26/2011 9:50:07 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

I have two of Michio Kaku’s books in my reading queue right now.


2 posted on 03/26/2011 9:51:23 AM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: EveningStar; Constitution Day

3 posted on 03/26/2011 9:53:01 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: EveningStar

I WANT FLYING CARS!!! I was promised them at the 1964 World’s Fair in NY. GM’s “Ride of Tomorrow’’ said we’d have them by 1980! Screwed again!!


4 posted on 03/26/2011 9:58:00 AM PDT by jmacusa (Two wrongs don't make a right. But they can make it interesting.)
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To: EveningStar

I’m still waiting for that little dorm-fridge size nuke plant that would sit in the basement and make all the electricity we’d ever need.

And for flying cars!


5 posted on 03/26/2011 9:59:35 AM PDT by bigbob (u)
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To: EveningStar
And you thought the iPhone was cool ...

6 posted on 03/26/2011 10:03:01 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: jmacusa

Flying cars?Average people can’t operate a car and you want them flying overhead.I’m calling Acme Corp and ordering one of those steel umbrellas that Willy always uses.


7 posted on 03/26/2011 10:06:32 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Farmer Dean

I think you’re right. Maybe I was too hasty. Think I’ll call the Amce folks too and start off with something simple-like rocket-powered roller skates. They always worked for Wiley E. Coyote!


8 posted on 03/26/2011 10:09:03 AM PDT by jmacusa (Two wrongs don't make a right. But they can make it interesting.)
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>>.I’m calling Acme Corp and ordering one of those steel umbrellas that Willy always uses.<<

I just ordered Rocket Skates from them...


9 posted on 03/26/2011 10:10:03 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. /P. J. O'Rourke, 1991)
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To: jmacusa

You really want to trust government motors to build you a FLYING car that’s reliable? That would be the Chevy DOLT, aka “The Smudgemark” as in what’s left of you after it kisses the ground unexpectedly.

GM wold not call these crashes, but “kinetic landings”.


10 posted on 03/26/2011 10:10:18 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: jmacusa

Why do the roller skates when you can get one of those rockets with the saddle and handlebars?


11 posted on 03/26/2011 10:11:28 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: jmacusa

GMTA (lol)


12 posted on 03/26/2011 10:11:46 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. /P. J. O'Rourke, 1991)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Well somebody out there must know how to make a safe flying car!! Dang it, I want one!!!


13 posted on 03/26/2011 10:12:36 AM PDT by jmacusa (Two wrongs don't make a right. But they can make it interesting.)
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Flying cars???

No way!!!

98% of the drivers (and that's a low estimate) out there can't handle two dimensions, most even have trouble with one and you want to add a third!!!

14 posted on 03/26/2011 10:12:49 AM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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15 posted on 03/26/2011 10:13:07 AM PDT by ROTB (Sans Christian revival, we are government slaves, or nuked by China/Russia when we revolt.)
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To: EveningStar

Bring on the Foodarackacycle!


16 posted on 03/26/2011 10:13:33 AM PDT by FourPeas
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To: Farmer Dean
Why do the roller skates when you can get one of those rockets with the saddle and handlebars?

I haz one. (profile page)

17 posted on 03/26/2011 10:13:44 AM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Farmer Dean

NOW THERE YA GO!!! Heck with it, I’m going out to my shed and try and make one!


18 posted on 03/26/2011 10:13:56 AM PDT by jmacusa (Two wrongs don't make a right. But they can make it interesting.)
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To: EveningStar

All I want to know is how soon we’ll have lightsabers.
19 posted on 03/26/2011 10:14:10 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Let this chant follow BHO everywhere he goes: "You lie. You lie. You lie.")
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To: EveningStar

The future is already here.

After all, Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh are both cyborgs. Pass it on.


20 posted on 03/26/2011 10:17:31 AM PDT by Cheburashka (Democratic Underground: The Hogwarts of stupid.)
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