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menace:
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I totally agree with fredster (on this one)
Until cars become like the Eliica:
(http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/previews/51690/eliica_eightwheeler.html)
I guess we are stuck with either good power--bad for the environment or no power but good for the environment
Crazy Cooter:
That's my point.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Crazy Cooter on March 28, 2005, 02:27:53 pm ---people want SUV's not tiny cars with pizza cutter wheels.
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People want SUVs because if you collide with an SUV, and you are driving a small car, you and your family die. There are issues that are as important as fuel economy. Safety is one of them.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: DrewKaree on March 28, 2005, 02:11:06 am ---
Your Star Trek world will happen, because men are always searching for a new conquest, and as long as the promise of mating with green women like Kirk exists, we'll be damned if we're gonna lose sight of THAT goal! ;D
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Man (and probably man-made objects) will never leave our solar system. People who think we will have a highly romanticized idea of what the universe is like. Consider this: the fastest spacecraft we have ever built is the Cassini spacecraft that recently took all those lovely pictures of Saturn. I believe it travels at about 35,000 MPH. The spacecraft that will soon be launched at Pluto is slightly faster than that and will be launched at the most ideal time to give it the shortest trip to that planet. It will still take the spacecraft 10 years to reach Pluto. Now here's where it gets crazy. For that same spacecraft to continue on, at the same speed, just to the end of our solar system -- not to the next solar system, mind you, just to get to the end of ours -- it would take another 10,000 years.
Even if we could travel at the speed of light you would have to stay onboard a spaceship for four years at that speed just to reach the nearest star. And there's nothing to even see there. It's not like we'll find an Alien race there. IIRC the nearest star that could conceivably have a planet supporting life is like 50 lightyears away or something. Who's going to be willing to stay on a spaceship for 50 years? Or even 5 years. And how the hell do you pack enough food on the spaceship to last for that long? And if we ever are able to travel at anything like the speed of light, which is unlikely, it's going to be 1000 years down the road.
It's why I think alien abduction stories are so funny. You supposedly have these Alien creatures that have the technology to travel distances that woudl take hundreds -- thousands of years even at the speed of light, that come here to kidnap us and jam primitive medical instruments up our rectums. Apparently they're capable of travelling faster than the speed of light (or are incredibly patient beings), but have yet to develop the virtual colonoscopy or the xray machine.
Or maybe they just travelled all this way to scare us with practical jokes (crop circles).
Anyway, yeah. No Star Trek.
Dartful Dodger:
--- Quote from: BrokenBones1 on March 27, 2005, 07:16:47 pm ---I don't think the Earths future will be like Bladerunner or Star Trek. I think it will be a barren desolate world free of humans and with little natural resources for the food chain to recover for a very long time.
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What would we need to do to get a Futurama future?
I wouldn't mind a Madd Maxx future either, my Dart would look great wrapped in barbed wire.