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RoboCop 1924
Web Image ^ | May 1924 | Unk

Posted on 09/28/2013 11:19:49 AM PDT by Islander7

Scientists have been making bone headed predictions of the future for decades. Found this on the web. Thought it an interesting bit of history.



TOPICS: Hobbies; Humor; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: history; leo; radio; strange
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1 posted on 09/28/2013 11:19:49 AM PDT by Islander7
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To: Islander7
Full size image is here
2 posted on 09/28/2013 11:21:05 AM PDT by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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Peter King would love one of these to ‘protect’ him from his constituents.


3 posted on 09/28/2013 11:21:48 AM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Islander7

SO what goes on in the minds of people who utilize their knowledge and talents to invent things specifically for crowd control by an oppressive government?


4 posted on 09/28/2013 11:23:47 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Islander7

I love the multi-sap hand. LOL


5 posted on 09/28/2013 11:26:30 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: Islander7

Is that for real?

Was this really from 1924?

has anyone checked this?


6 posted on 09/28/2013 11:27:51 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: Islander7
A little artistic flair, but I thinks it is a pretty good prediction.


7 posted on 09/28/2013 11:30:18 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Islander7

Love the anatomically positioned Tear Gas outlet and exhaust port.


8 posted on 09/28/2013 11:31:28 AM PDT by digger48
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To: GeronL

I couldn’t find the exact article but found this from even early so yea, its probably true.

http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/future_history_of_the/


9 posted on 09/28/2013 11:32:24 AM PDT by svcw (obama lied my plan died)
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To: GeronL
I just checked for references for the magazine and found what purports to be an image of the cover of Science and Invention May 1924




looks "real" to me
10 posted on 09/28/2013 11:39:12 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
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So far it does.


11 posted on 09/28/2013 11:42:23 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: svcw

see above post for cover of Science and Invention May 1924..touting said article

LOVE this one....the FIRST Google Glass??

http://longstreet.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83542d51e69e201901e12c401970b-500wi


12 posted on 09/28/2013 11:42:30 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
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To: Islander7
I’m kind of surprised Henry Ford didn’t build a few of these.
13 posted on 09/28/2013 12:03:39 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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I’m kind of surprised Henry Ford didn’t build a few of these.


14 posted on 09/28/2013 12:03:53 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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Imagine what we could do today with advanced electronics and controls-—I would not be surprised if Obama put a few of these out to counter the tea parties.


15 posted on 09/28/2013 12:07:59 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: Pan_Yan

I was thinking the same thing. What is it with humans and the draw to dominate and oppress?

I suppose we are hunters, with instinct to kill outsiders and dominate the tribe for women, food and glory.

Humans pretty much suck.


16 posted on 09/28/2013 12:08:57 PM PDT by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept?)
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To: GeronL

It’s likely real. The author is Hugo Gernsback, for whom the Hugo Award in Science Fiction is named for. Wikipedia has a decent write up of him.


17 posted on 09/28/2013 12:33:08 PM PDT by jtonn
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SO this was science fiction?


18 posted on 09/28/2013 12:36:10 PM PDT by GeronL
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“Is that for real?

Was this really from 1924?”

Tesla made a radio controlled boat in 1898.


19 posted on 09/28/2013 12:36:17 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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bump


20 posted on 09/28/2013 12:39:38 PM PDT by GeronL
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