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| Akridrot |
| quote: | Originally posted by chrisday
So much has happened in the area of technology in the last ten years its scary... and this will continue to happen. If you would of told people 20 years ago that we could walk around with a mobile communication device and talk across the internet and store millions of pages online, they would never of believed you!
I think we will be flying around in personalised vehicles earlier than people think..
My guess is 30 years or so, And I would also imagine development is underway now with prototypes. The only thing that will delay it by 20 years or so is the strict health and safety laws! |
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| Sunsnail |
| quote: | Originally posted by chrisday
So much has happened in the area of technology in the last ten years its scary... and this will continue to happen. If you would of told people 20 years ago that we could walk around with a mobile communication device and talk across the internet and store millions of pages online, they would never of believed you!
I think we will be flying around in personalised vehicles earlier than people think..
My guess is 30 years or so, And I would also imagine development is underway now with prototypes. The only thing that will delay it by 20 years or so is the strict health and safety laws! |
Yep, prototypes have already been produced. 20 miles per gallon too :p |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| quote: | Originally posted by Omega_M
In what way do you think it will be cataclysmic towards the living organisms on this planet ? plz elaborate. |
Well obviously it might not have an adverse affect on a great number of bacteria that thrive in undrinkable water, but using clean water to power cars seems like a pretty big waste of a precious resource. Ultimately, it depends on the waste expelled as well as the rate at which the fuel is burned.
Seems to me that you would see an accelerated level of entropy if you burn away one of the only resources that facilitates life on this planet. knows there's plenty of water to burn, but who can be sure of what effects the pollution would have?
I think that, in the coming years, at the rate we are going, we should be quite concerned with developing, not cars that fly, but cars that float. :p |
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| Akridrot |
| We need to get off of this planet and ban anyone with an STD from coming with us. I want to be buried on Saturn. |
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| aquila |
| quote: | Originally posted by Akridrot
We need to get off of this planet and ban anyone with an STD from coming with us. I want to be buried on Saturn. |
Bites lip to avoid Uranus joke. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sunsnail
Yep, prototypes have already been produced. |
there's a flying saucer-like hovercraft that hovers about 10 feet off the ground. it costs about $250K US. i think the military are looking at them. |
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| Lilith |
| quote: | Originally posted by chrisday
I think we will be flying around in personalised vehicles earlier than people think.. |
Light aircraft aren't that expensive to buy, about the same as a 2nd hand luxury car, even less if you just want to play around with ultralights and other silliness. They do use a fair bit of fuel and it's not something you can ever neglect when it comes to any kind of upkeep on.
So unlike a car, you can't put off getting the brakes done, reckon you'll be right with $10 worth of petrol and get home alright or any other kind of shenanigans that people neglect motor vehicles with and sometimes get away with. Also to actually be legally allowed to fly, you have to know what the instruments do, how to navigate, manage weight with airspeed and fuel consumption to work out distance, actually flying the damn thing is easy.
Course, if the same regulations where placed on cars we'd probably also have a lot less accidents, simply because it removes the brainless riff-raff from behind the controls of a vehicles that only have to go around the block a few times without scaring the instructor and park it without causing undue property damage. :haha: |
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| d-miurge |
| It's all about the aircar. I had the chance to drive it, ing fantastic! :eyespop: |
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| Omega_M |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
Well obviously it might not have an adverse affect on a great number of bacteria that thrive in undrinkable water, but using clean water to power cars seems like a pretty big waste of a precious resource. Ultimately, it depends on the waste expelled as well as the rate at which the fuel is burned.
Seems to me that you would see an accelerated level of entropy if you burn away one of the only resources that facilitates life on this planet. knows there's plenty of water to burn, but who can be sure of what effects the pollution would have?
I think that, in the coming years, at the rate we are going, we should be quite concerned with developing, not cars that fly, but cars that float. :p |
The earth is estimated to have 326 million trillion gallons of water, whereas the total petroleum reserves are estimated to be around 2.1 to 2.8 trillion gallons. The decomposition product of a water-based engine is, again water. You can easily purify water from any resource to the desired standards and use it in the engine. Water is a cheap, pollutant free and abundant source of fuel. The entropy levels are being accelerated NOW, because of the indiscriminate use of precious petroleum-based fuel reserves. |
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| Tarpex |
Bah, until practically all oil runs out, the oil lobbies are simply too strong to allow any seriously mass produced consumer vehicle, that wouldn't run on oil derivates.
Just wondering, if USA will then "liberate" countries with a huge water supply :haha: |
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