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OMG! Win a trip to OUTER SPACE!!! O.O
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 3:55 pm
by MittensValefor
Best Microsoft marketing ploy ever. Best contest ever!
http://www.vanishingpointgame.com/
click on the link at the bottom center for a list of prizes... Grand prize includes a trip in a rocketplane to SPACE!!! I am sooo entering this contest! Do me a favor and list
c_fewell@hotmail.com as the referring party - it'll earn me points! XD
Space tourism is for real! First guy spent $20 million for a ticket:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_tourism
By 2010 the tickets are expected to be down to $20,000 per person.
Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:30 pm
by Eviticus
And by 1999 they said we were supposed to have flying cars and robot maids.
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 5:51 pm
by Alya Mizar (Tsybil)
Eviticus wrote:And by 1999 they said we were supposed to have flying cars and robot maids.
We have had the flying cars since 1949.
Search Aero Car, maybe Moult Taylor, I think that is the name of the inventor.
And we have had robot lawnmowers for about a decade.
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 7:21 pm
by Fiye
We have flying cars, but they're about as effective as putting steam engines on Jets.
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 8:05 pm
by Leane
we also have robot vacuum cleaners (roomba) and mops (scooba)
the roomba and scooba are bothe made by
iRobot
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 8:08 pm
by Eviticus
You know I meant practical innovations. We have robot's to do that, but their complexity is currently offsetting their value.
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 1:17 pm
by Kahvi
Eviticus wrote:And by 1999 they said we were supposed to have flying cars and robot maids.
okay... i'll bite...
"Well, most of us rational thinkers weren't expecting a cartoon to give us an accurate view of technological development."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRznC58Xr7Y
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 5:21 pm
by Alya Mizar (Tsybil)
Fiye wrote:We have flying cars, but they're about as effective as putting steam engines on Jets.
We did that in the '50s as well. At least on paper.
Nuclear powered steam turbines, but still steam..... Around the world without refeuling? Heck YEARS without refeuling.
"Atoms for Peace" was the name of the program. It looked at many peaceful uses for nuke power. They did build at least one nuke powered freighter, I wonder what became of it.
Taylor's Aerocar towed its wings and tail to the airstrip and was ready to fly in 10 mins. I can think of several 4 seat aircraft of the era that got worse milage and flew slower.