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Flying Cars Reportedly Still Decades Away
Yahoo! News/AP ^
| 08/27/2004
| Allison Linn
Posted on 08/27/2004 11:23:44 AM PDT by B Knotts
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To: B Knotts
Just some good ole' boys
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posted on
08/27/2004 11:39:38 AM PDT
by
evets
(God bless president George W. Bush)
To: RightWhale; B Knotts
Ain't ever going to happen. THe government is already using technology to track us all (if they so choose) using cameras and through the use of toll-paying devices.
If you could just fly away somewhere, that control is gone and the one-worlders aren't going to let that happen.
Where the hell is my tin-foil hat anyway?
42
posted on
08/27/2004 11:40:06 AM PDT
by
subterfuge
(Liberalism is, as liberalism does.)
To: B Knotts
Honestly, I think a helicopter would be rather more cost effective and safe.
Qwinn
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posted on
08/27/2004 11:40:45 AM PDT
by
Qwinn2
To: martin_fierro
Driving in TWO dimensions is tough enough for a lot of people. And there will be plenty of opportunity for tickets to be issued...
44
posted on
08/27/2004 11:41:42 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Kerry Lied. Soldiers Died.)
To: RightWhale
Nah. It would be survival of the fittest at its best. Anyone who can avoid oncoming flying soccer moms who are putting on their makeup and talking on the cell phone at the same time deserves to live.
45
posted on
08/27/2004 11:41:57 AM PDT
by
Quick1
To: subterfuge
It could be done, but the control system would cost more than social security and a power grid outage would kill everybody.
46
posted on
08/27/2004 11:42:45 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
To: martin_fierro; Tijeras_Slim; Rebelbase
CD is my mild-mannered alter-ego.No, I'm medium-mannered at the very least.
47
posted on
08/27/2004 11:42:59 AM PDT
by
Constitution Day
(Now with 23% more sarcasm than last year's Freeper!)
To: eno_
The sky is big. Airplanes don't collide except near airports, and automating approaches and takeoffs is a reasonably do-able problem. You're forgetting the poor victims on the ground.
Want to bet lunch? Check back in 100 years.
Meantime, your trust in technology reminds me of an old joke:
"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the first totally automated coast to coast flight. We have every conceivable safety feature, and quadruple redundant systems, so nothing can go wrong... go wrong... go wrong... go wrong... go wrong... go wrong... go wrong... go wrong... go wrong... go wrong... go wrong... go wrong... go wrong... go wrong... go wrong... go wrong... go wrong... go wrong... go wrong... go wrong... go wrong... go wrong... "
48
posted on
08/27/2004 11:43:34 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(I don't do diplomacy either)
To: Gorzaloon
Oh, yeah.
And imagine the expense of having to bury all the power lines and saw off all overhanging tree limbs in every subdivision so that George Jetson could have a long enough takeoff roll without snagging in the wires . . . and ground control (let alone air traffic control) . . . and weight and balance wrecks . . . and stall/spins . . .
Nah.
49
posted on
08/27/2004 11:43:41 AM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
To: Constitution Day
No, I'm medium-mannered at the very least. Same here, but barely housebroken.
50
posted on
08/27/2004 11:44:24 AM PDT
by
Tijeras_Slim
(I saw the President yesterday!)
To: COBOL2Java
Corbin Dallas, you're a winner!
51
posted on
08/27/2004 11:46:45 AM PDT
by
Pyro7480
(Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, sancta Dei Genitrix.... sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper...)
To: ken5050
On second thought, where is my robot maid?
52
posted on
08/27/2004 11:48:13 AM PDT
by
annyokie
(Now with 20% More Infidel!)
To: B Knotts
We should already have flying cars...but it's the FAA that will stand in the way.
I like
this guys approach:
53
posted on
08/27/2004 11:53:11 AM PDT
by
beezdotcom
(I'm usually either right or wrong...)
To: COBOL2Java
Sci-fi movies with the lived-in look are best. That one was about a taxi driver wasn't it? Kind of a Flash Gordon ambience.
54
posted on
08/27/2004 11:56:02 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
To: B Knotts
"Ruh, ro!"
To: Eric in the Ozarks
That's funny...my mom and dad always talked about their parents
finding a flying machine in the basement of a home they bought.
That's where I got my idea.
56
posted on
08/27/2004 12:00:13 PM PDT
by
scott7278
(Kerry/Edwards: More Affordable Hair Care for America)
To: B Knotts
I collect old Popular Science/Mechanics mags, and could make a pretty thick book out of flying car ideas they've featured over the past 60 years that were "just around the corner."
To: B Knotts
For cripes sake! It's 2004! I want my robot butler and flying car.
58
posted on
08/27/2004 12:01:21 PM PDT
by
exile
(Exile - Helen Thomas tried to lure me into her Gingerbread House.)
To: B Knotts
Laddie, Transporter Technology -- That's the ticket!
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posted on
08/27/2004 12:01:25 PM PDT
by
EdReform
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To: Arkinsaw; B Knotts
You forgot about this one.
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posted on
08/27/2004 12:02:12 PM PDT
by
Bacon Man
(Guns kill people like spoons made Rosie O'Donnell fat.)
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