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Post by gtvc on Nov 16, 2011 17:54:59 GMT -4
I understand the ships of Star Trek travel faster than light creating a field or bubble around the ship I remember an episode where the Enterprise was in an asteroid trap and Picard used thrusters to get the ship out. I believe Nasa was studying this to create some real warp field for a ship. ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) Galactica was in the same universe of Buck Rogers with ships very similar to fighter planes ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png) . The old Flash Gordon serials used real small rockets ;D
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Post by Apollo Gnomon on Nov 16, 2011 18:44:32 GMT -4
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Post by gtvc on Nov 17, 2011 16:55:30 GMT -4
The starfuries looks cool, I also like the eagle of space 1999 which was inspired by pieces of the Gemini and Apollo saturn V, lunar module and command module scale models. ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png) The Rocket of Flash Gordon look so funny now ;D but I remember predictions about this century that never came like flying cars and travels to other planets of the solar system. ![:'(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cry.png)
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Post by twik on Nov 17, 2011 17:01:40 GMT -4
Actually, I am incredibly grateful that flying cars never came about.
There are many idiots who can't drive safely in two dimensions - thinking of them trying to deal with THREE is frightening.
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Post by gtvc on Nov 17, 2011 17:08:03 GMT -4
ha ha ha ;D well I have a magazine from 1969 after the landing of Apollo 11 and the article was very optimistic men on mars and exploring the rest of the solar system planets. ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png)
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Post by gillianren on Nov 17, 2011 19:32:04 GMT -4
Actually, I am incredibly grateful that flying cars never came about. There are many idiots who can't drive safely in two dimensions - thinking of them trying to deal with THREE is frightening. Exactly. It's like I always say; I consider myself an above-average driver, but that's because I have such a low opinion of the average driver. Also, if my engine dies now, I pull over to the side of the road. In a flying car, I fall to my death.
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Post by gtvc on Nov 17, 2011 22:19:12 GMT -4
well we donĀ“t have flying cars but some people have private jets or helicopters ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png) ;D ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png) this is a protoype www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj_TiCKHSAQbut I think you should get first a pilot license.
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Post by Data Cable on Nov 17, 2011 23:28:13 GMT -4
Actually, I am incredibly grateful that flying cars never came about.
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Post by gtvc on Nov 19, 2011 19:12:43 GMT -4
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Post by gtvc on Nov 21, 2011 23:32:32 GMT -4
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Post by BertL on Nov 22, 2011 0:09:57 GMT -4
Of course, then there's The Police's Walking on the Moon, shot at the Kennedy Space Center and incorporating some nice Apollo footage.
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Post by twik on Nov 22, 2011 14:50:45 GMT -4
In a flying car, I fall to my death.I am going to save this and quote it every time I hear someone lament flying cars! It sums it up perfectly!
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Post by gillianren on Nov 22, 2011 15:35:56 GMT -4
Thank you. I have a lot of problems with the idea--car accidents are another thing which are bad enough at ground level--but they all kind of boil down to "we're bad enough drivers in two dimensions."
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Post by carpediem on Nov 23, 2011 5:17:06 GMT -4
In a flying car, I fall to my death.Not necessarily, ever hear of an autogyro or a blimp? There are several flying technologies that fail in a relatively slow and safe way. Flying cars don't automatically have to be based on the Back To The Future model.
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Post by Al Johnston on Nov 23, 2011 5:36:17 GMT -4
Ironically the 1972 Blue Peter annual had an article on autogyros which considered the possibility of using them as everyman's mode of transport. They came down against the idea: "People would be falling from the skies like confetti."
James May demonstrated the inadequacies of the blimp quite adequately on Top Gear...
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