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Ten Things That Will Disappear In Our Lifetime This is USA oriented, but Canada and the rest will not be far behind. Whether these changes are good or bad depends in part on how we adapt to them. But, ready or not, here they come. Maybe not in the seniors of today lifetimes but more likely in our children’s. _________________________________________________________ 1. The Post Office Get ready to imagine a world without the post office. They are so deeply in financial trouble that there is probably no way to sustain it long term. Email, Fed Ex, and UPS have just about...

The Running Man 1987--Looks a lot like life under Obama and would have continued had the Killdebeast become Madam Presidente. The heavily edited "news" footage is a lot like CNN. Doctored fake news.

Imagine a Naval gun so powerful it can shoot a 5-inch projectile up to 220 miles, yet requires no explosives to fire. That's the Navy's futuristic electromagnetic railgun, a project that could be deployed on the service's ships by 2025, and which is now a little bit closer to reality with the signing of a deal with Raytheon for the development of what's known as the pulse-forming network. (Snip) At the same time, because the power for the railgun will come from ships' standard battery banks, the Navy shouldn't have to maintain large amounts of space on board for storage

A bit more than two years ago, I reviewed Robert Ferrigno's Prayers for the Assassin--a disturbing but powerful novel set in a future where the combination of terrorism, elites embracing Islam, and the disappearance of Christianity as a significant influence on much of the United States, leads to the division of America into the Islamic States of America and the Bible Belt--an impoverished Christian nation occupying roughly the South. At the time I wrote that review in January of 2006, I expressed my belief that two of Ferrigno's assumptions about what would be required for this nightmarish future were a...

The last time the three-wheeled Aptera was featured on our site, we promised to keep you abreast of any new information that we found. Thanks to a tip from a reader named Matthew, we are pleased to let you know that Aptera is now accepting orders. Aptera has a Web site here, but there is not a great deal of information or raw-data to be found there. A better source of information is at their MySpace page, which is here. According to this article, Aptera is looking at around 300 miles per gallon along with acceptable performance numbers of about...

I have always been an aficionado of science fiction, and was raised on such classics as The Twilight Zone, and the original Outer Limits and Star Trek series. And I’ve been a science fiction junkie ever since. When done well, it’s a very entertaining genre. However, when sci-fi has the added elements of adeptly examining moral truths and piquing our thought processes, it can be downright superb. If the movie industry buzz is accurate, the soon-to-be-released, "The Minority Report", a Steven Spielberg production, may indeed be the riveting science fiction blockbuster of the season. After reading Alexander Walker’s insightful film...