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A Sobering Thought

February 4, 2004

Earlier today, as I was thinking about the moon, Mars, space exploration and technology, something suddenly occurred to me: It is possible that we will never, in my lifetime, develop successful flying car technology for personal use.

It's a sobering thought.

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not true. you may never get to own one, but it has, in fact, been successfully developed.

Posted by: pete on 5 Feb 04 at 04:53AM

Ryan, as you know I share this 'flying car' dream, but can you imagine what the tolls will be like on the skyways?

Posted by: rexsavior on 5 Feb 04 at 06:39AM

I'm familiar with Moller Skycar, but it's that personal use that I'm waiting for.

Posted by: ryan on 5 Feb 04 at 09:56AM

test post

Posted by: Ryan on 9 Feb 04 at 02:03PM

Tim Allen [yes, the guy from Home Improvement] once said that he thought that GM or Ford invented fly cars a long time ago, but as the engineers left the lab and took one look at a busy highway, they immediately destroyed every piece of evidence that the flying car existed... true.

About 99% of the people in this world have serious problems mastering a vehicle on the X and Z axis - imagine the chaos of adding the Y! Then take a drive on the 405 or the 110 at 6pm!
Even worse than all of that, would anyone want to live in a world where you saw stacks and stacks of cars in teh sky instead of clouds and sunsets? Remember the FWY in Back To The Future II...

Posted by: bigsteve on 9 Feb 04 at 02:46PM

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