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Thread ID: 147572	2019-01-24 18:26:00	Death, Mayhem, Fire From The Sky!	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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1457587	2019-01-24 18:26:00	Not apocryphal news, not yet anyway . . . . . but I was promised that by the year 2000 that I'd have a flying car, a robot to mow the lawn and since nuclear powerr was so cheap that we'd all have free electricity . Boy's Life and Popular Mechanics and Popular Science told us about the new world about to erupt with great fanfare as we entered the Aldous Huxley Era . OK . . . . in truth, all of what i actually wanted was that flying car! Imagine taking off and zooming directly to where you wanted to go . . . . no stop signs, no lanes and no congestion, no cops! Big brain meltdown that became! Thankfully, the flying car never happened . . . . . because if one could extrapolate current, non-aeronautical driving accidents causes-effect, and just multiply it by a gazillion . . . . why . . . . dead bodies would be falling like leaves in autumn . Then there'd be heavy engine and wing parts falling . . . . causing dismemberment and property damage above and beyond just the single impact of humans reaching terminal velocity . . . . and suddenly stopping . . com/2019/01/24/boeings-flying-car-lifts-off-in-race-to-revolutionize-urban-transport/" target="_blank">venturebeat . com	SurferJoe46 (51)
1457588	2019-01-24 18:49:00	We got the flying car :D The take off was excellent, the landing not so good. Some young idiots on the 31st December, lost it, up over a garden, taking out the letter box, over the fence, through five properties before coming to a stop.	wainuitech (129)
1457589	2019-01-24 19:09:00	i actually wanted was that flying car! Here you go: www.washingtonpost.com	piroska (17583)
1457590	2019-01-24 19:23:00	Different link, same results......... That's OK - youse guys may not be able to see some of the stuff I can and vice-versa. No foul.............	SurferJoe46 (51)
1457591	2019-01-24 19:24:00	Gotta go out for a while. Youse guys play nicely amongst yourselves for a bit. I'll be right back.	SurferJoe46 (51)
1457592	2019-01-24 20:13:00	Not apocryphal news, not yet anyway..... but I was promised that by the year 2000 that I'd have a flying car You do realize 'the Jetsons' was just a cartoon , and not based on actual future events :) Imagine the noise equivalent to 100,000 motor mowers(or small helis) in the air above us , if it had become reality for the average man . Mollers flying car has been in development for as long as I can remember. A bit like NZ's Jetpack, that we put a few million into . Anyway, hobbyists are now using oversize drone parts to do the same thing, made in the garage on the weekends. They get off the ground & fly around, but they look as dangerous as all hell . One of those crashing onto my roof would make one hell of a dent . www.youtube.com youtu.be and something a bit more pro built . How are you knees holding up, could be just want you wanted . youtu.be	1101 (13337)
1457593	2019-01-25 00:06:00	@ 1101 You do realize 'the Jetsons' was just a cartoon , and not based on actual future events :) Don't be silly! I know that was too fantastic to be real.. Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea (www.google.com %2F&usg=AOvVaw3io3df2cvzNE5EfE43TOEn), OTOH, was really real. 9316 Irwin Allen knew!	SurferJoe46 (51)
1457594	2019-01-25 03:25:00	We do have robot lawn mowers at least, so that's something. Flying cars are possible, just a really bad Idea. Free electricity? did they forget about human greed when they promised you that? :p	dugimodo (138)
1457595	2019-01-25 05:15:00	We do have robot lawn mowers at least, so that's something . Flying cars are possible, just a really bad Idea . Free electricity? did they forget about human greed when they promised you that? :p Well . . I DO remember going to the GE Carousel Of The Future (was that the name? it mightta been "Carousel of Progress" - because: " 'Progress' is our most important product " was their motto) . . . in Disneyland c . 1963 when we moved to California and I went to their rotating display . It cost an "E" Ticket . I think an E ticket was about 3-bux . In 1961 that was a LOT OF MONEY just to see a stoopid propaganda presentation . The General Electric Company said that electricity would be free if they got to build all the nuclear generating stations they needed and they felt it would break even at a certain point since they didn't ever have to change the fuel rods --- NEVER! Pardon me, but I just wrote them a check for what I used last month . At least they don't make me pre-pay the bill .	SurferJoe46 (51)
1457596	2019-01-25 05:31:00	Out of curiosity Joe, how much a month does your power cost? Our house is 25 years old, 200 square meters (approx 2150 square feet) and I pay $35/week or $1850/year. No central heating, just a log fire which we didn't use at all last winter and a couple of oil finned heaters. Our power is mainly hydro and geothermal generated. Just SWMBO and myself. Ken :)	kenj (9738)
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