Where's my flying car

“I was watching a show about the fiftys on all the neat inventions that we would have by the year 2000, like flying cars, jet packs, citys at the bottom of the sea and hotels in space and on the moon..

So where are they???

Did I spend to much time in the woods and miss them, or did the y2k bug destroy them all?”

“Don't know what you're talking about. I've got one of each and then some. You do have the vacuum-microwave-dishwasher-fridge-washer/dryer-iron-TV-coffee maker combo don't you?”

“It's only a foot high, weighs eight ounces, and runs on a single AA battery for over three years, never needs filling?”

“Mine also dehydrates food.... :)”

“Harumph!”

“It's a darn shame I left my personal air conditioner at home in the jet port. The A/C at work is on the blink and pumping out HOT air!

I wonder if I could teleport the personal one here!”

“New Years Eve, 75/76, my buddies and I pledged to meet at the moon for NYE 2000/2001 if it was realistic. We are really not that far off, maybe in our children's lifetime.”

“I was there; what happened to you?”

“just talk to the russians im sure they got some surplus rockets they could sell ya. that'd get you to the moon.”

“mass produced flying car will soon be a reality.”

“soon?? i can't wait that long!”

“Jane! Stop this crazy thing!”

“And you think people drive poorly in two dimensions just wait till you get a load of three.

Today:
T-bone and rearenders

Tomorrow:
Everything we got now plus top down, bottom up, ascending and descending 45 wrecks”

“Here’s your flying car:

http://www.moller.com/”

“When in the heck are they going to invent Soylent Green?!?! Bet it tastes great on the trail.”

“Well we could show him all this during moonypaloosa ...”

“Soylent Green might be better than Quorn.”

“No way I'm biting!”

“puzzy”

“It's okay, Violin's link was a harmless one to a CNN article, and a pretty interesting one.”

“Fungus, foot, ... you don't make the connection Artex???”

“Only bitpusher would find a pic at lunaticlounge.com. LOL”

“It helps to be a lunatic...”

“I'm a bit slow today, Geobeet. I'll blame it on the heat. :-P”

“The violin appelation is not accurate. It should be Department of Scatology.”

“YOUR flying car is in My cracker jack box.

heeeeeheee!”

“flyguy...how stoned where you guys when you made that pledge?..”

“Opie, oh man, oh man. I can't remember. I've only been stoned a few times in my life. Once was from ~'75-'82.”

“Bit if it wasn't for the fungus it would probably taste like chicken!!”

“Nah I've heard that people taste like pork. "long pig", and all that.

Not in a hurry to find out myself.”

“You are more 'informed' than me. I'm trying to remember what they said in the Alive movie.”

“i saw in an OLD comic (next to the gag gifts:hot gum, gag lookglass, chatter teeth, and sea monkeys) we can buy the bluprints for the amazing hover bike. it appears to be made from vaccuum cleaners and hair dryers in a triangular formation w/a seat and handle bars.
ok, so we "augment" that design (grunt grunt)
and wallah we have hover technology.
who needs a degree?
he!! w/all the IQ points floatin around this site, i'll bet we can make a spaceshuttle out of household appliances!
let us rok”

“I read the book when I was a kid, and I saw the movie when it came out a few years ago. I don't remember any description of what people taste like in either of those, but maybe I'm just blocking it out of my memory....”

“You can go buy one this afternoon. They're called 'helicopters'.”

“All flying cars are being recalled by the manufacturer, Milennium Motor Works. According to a company spokestwit, a defect in the thrusters causes the vehicle to fall from the sky while it is stopped at red lights.”

“Anybody else here read "Safe At Any Speed" by Larry Niven?”

“That boy just ain't right.”

“Who? Niven or me? lol....”

“Now that you mention it... LOL”

“

This is not a Blimp. It's a sort of flying Queen Mary 2 that could change the way you think about air travel. It's the Aeroscraft, and when it's completed, it will ferry pampered passengers across continents and oceans as they stroll leisurely about the one-acre cabin or relax in their well-appointed staterooms.
Unlike its dirigible ancestors, the Aeroscraft is not lighter than air. Its 14 million cubic feet of helium hoist only two thirds of the craft's weight. The rigid and surprisingly aerodynamic body—driven by huge rearward propellers—generates enough additional lift to keep the behemoth and its 400-ton payload aloft while cruising. During takeoff and landing, six turbofan jet engines push the ship up or ease its descent.

This two-football-fields-long concept airship is the brainchild of Igor Pasternak, whose privately-funded California firm, Worldwide Aeros Corporation, is in the early stages of developing a prototype and expects to have one completed by 2010. Pasternak says several cruise ship companies have expressed interest in the project, and for good reason: The craft would have a range of several thousand miles and, with an estimated top speed of 174 mph, could traverse the continental U.S. in about 18 hours. During the flight, passengers would peer at national landmarks just 8,000 feet below or, if they weren't captivated by the view, the cavernous interior would easily accommodate such amenities as luxury staterooms, restaurants, even a casino.

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/whatsnew/18ac893302839010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html”

“People are going to be sea sick on that thing.”

“we keep building bigger, with more passengers, so the number of dead per crash climbs exponentially....makes sense...who wantsw to die alone?


Then again, think of the fun when Helium leaks into the passenger spaces....and everyone is singing like Donald Duck...”

“Here is your flying car:



The rest of the story of the Fulton Airphibian is here:

http://patentpending.blogs.com/patent_pending_blog/2004/12/fultons_airphib_1.html”

“http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=389357&in_page_id=1770

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