So looking at all of those old world of tomorrow videos on the future made me wonder, is there any way without an ASB to have the future world come to reality? Could we have things like Flying cars, jetpacks, robots, underwater and lunar cities, food pills, virtual reality, and so on by the year 2000?
AHC: Flying cars and jetpacks by the year 2000?
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sharlin
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We'd need some form of energy and technological revolution really. A huge batch of wunderkinds working together manage to crack fusion as well as develop rudimentary (and controlled) AI as well as developing new materials that could withstand the pressures of the sea etc. For lunar cities...we'd need the space race to be bigger and for constant funding and research to get to something like the opening scene of 2001's development of lunar bases and large orbitals that make the ISS look like a toy.
Really without ASB...its probably impossible. We're still working on Robots
For example.
Really without ASB...its probably impossible. We're still working on Robots
For example.
Neirdak
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It's easy if you change the definition of cars and are ready to accept jetpacks that can fly a middle distance. In fact we already had those in the past.
Of course, if you need a POD. I would use WWII
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMQwT9z0Jyc
Jetpacks exist in our world, you just need to commercialize them :
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Cj0cMJNbs
Flying cars were the "roadable aircrafts" projects :
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadable_aircraft
Of course, if you need a POD. I would use WWII
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMQwT9z0Jyc
Jetpacks exist in our world, you just need to commercialize them :
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Cj0cMJNbs
Flying cars were the "roadable aircrafts" projects :
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadable_aircraft
Neirdak
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Impressive Army Jet Pack
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxUuldcm2_0
If they were autogyros or gyrodynes, they could land anywhere. You just need airfields built outside of big cities to take off. A gyrodyne can even take off like a copter.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrodyne
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxUuldcm2_0
If they were autogyros or gyrodynes, they could land anywhere. You just need airfields built outside of big cities to take off. A gyrodyne can even take off like a copter.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrodyne
Take a lot more work to make a viable gyrodyne with a detachable car than an aeroplane with one.
Indeed.
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Neirdak
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Why should the car be detached?
- You land
- You fold the wings (and the main rotors)
- You drive away
Look here :
- http://www.likecool.com/Aerocar_N103D_Flying_Plane_Car_Single_Engine_Auto_Fly--Other--Car.html (1956)
- http://www.terrafugia.com/ (nowadays)
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Delta Force
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Depending on your expectations, all those technologies already occured by the 1970s, apart from the Moon base. However, we had the technology to build one. Flying cars (or cars with wings) were a 1930s or 1940s technology. Jetpacks were 1950s and 1960s. Robots were 1960s and 1970s for industrial applications, and a few robotic exoskeletons were even built. Underwater cities were done in the aquanaut programs of the 1960s. Food pills are akin to vitamins, and someone developed a nutritionally balanced smoothie type mixture a few months ago that can feed a person for $60 per month. Even virtual reality was around in the 1970s in the form of the Aspen Movie Map.
Well it does help with road mobility of your little two-seater isn't the size of a four-door pickup (the Terrafugia Transition is actually longer than some models of the Ford F-150), but much more flimsy.Why should the car be detached?
- You land
- You fold the wings (and the main rotors)
- You drive away
Look closely and you will notice the wings and tail on the Aerocar are indeed fully detachable.
Yep. Motorail trains would be almost as good as flying cars, sure they don't move fast, but you have a viable car when you get off the other end, and you can take lunch while you're on the move. As for jetpacks, the only really practical one thus far (the Martin) is decidedly lacking in the 'jet' region, which is possibly part of the reason it's actually viable.
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sharlin
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The problem is making them practical and useful rather than just scientific oddities or an excuse to spend money on some military project.
Its a shame the Hardiman exoskeleton didn't pan out.
Delta Force
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It's produced by Martin Aircraft Company, founded by a New Zealander named Glenn Martin, which is the same name as the founder of the old Glenn L. Martin Company in the United States. Quite the coincidence.
Uff Da the optimist
Donor
1945
Truman, the most powerful man in the world is playing with his grandchildren. "The floor is lava granddad!" one of the children shout as they jump up and cling to respective furniture.
Truman is filled with innocent emotions contrasting with all the horrors he as a president has had to face.
"By god, such evil shall not persevere in the face of what is pure and innocent... The floor IS lava!"
"Make it so!" He shouts to his advisors while hanging from the chandelier.
1999
His grandchildren still thinks Truman is the coolest guy ever, and reposts a picture of him on Futurenet(ttl's internet) at new years eve, as a symbol of how far we've come despite of the floor being lava.
Truman, the most powerful man in the world is playing with his grandchildren. "The floor is lava granddad!" one of the children shout as they jump up and cling to respective furniture.
Truman is filled with innocent emotions contrasting with all the horrors he as a president has had to face.
"By god, such evil shall not persevere in the face of what is pure and innocent... The floor IS lava!"
"Make it so!" He shouts to his advisors while hanging from the chandelier.
1999
His grandchildren still thinks Truman is the coolest guy ever, and reposts a picture of him on Futurenet(ttl's internet) at new years eve, as a symbol of how far we've come despite of the floor being lava.
these are possible by 2000:
jetpacks
robots
food pills
virtual reality
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Under water cities and lunar cities, there must be a need to even do it by 2000. I dont see a reason why civilization would expand in the seas or the moon unless the land and earth is not a viable place to live in like nuclear war that happened before 2000.
For Flying cars, even though technology is available, you need a practical and safer way of using flying cars. In earth going from point A to point B, you would need less resources when using cars on land than on air. Unless you define helicopters and VTOL aircraft as flying cars, i dont see this happening by 2000.
We can, and have built a flying car with current technology. It's just that.. it's impractical. Think Flying-car-crash with airplane levels of fuel consumption and inefficiency.
As for Jetpacks, see: http://xkcd.com/1382/
1) Attach missile to human
2) Launch Missile
3) Get severely injured human
4) Face lawsuits
5) ???
6) Profit!
As for Jetpacks, see: http://xkcd.com/1382/
1) Attach missile to human
2) Launch Missile
3) Get severely injured human
4) Face lawsuits
5) ???
6) Profit!