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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.  Galactica was in the same universe of Buck Rogers with ships very similar to fighter planes  . 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. 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.  |
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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. |
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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 don´t have flying cars but some people have private jets or helicopters  ;D 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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. The old Flash Gordon serials used real small rockets ;D
;D 
He is right!!! 
