31-08-2005, 14:22
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I want my flying car!
Does anyone else feel slightly cheated by the future? I remember being a small boy, and thinking about the year 2000, and how it was so far into the future, and wondering what amazing things there would be. Moonbases, space ships travelling the solar system, silver jumpsuits for everyone, and a flying car for the family to go places in.
When I think 'this is the year 2005', it still sounds to my 20th century ears as if I've taken a trip into the future. Yet everything looks pretty much the same as it always did.
Would anybody like to nominate their favourite, futuristic invention, or something else about our society, that really does say, 'this is the future!'
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31-08-2005, 14:26
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Re: I want my flying car!
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31-08-2005, 14:58
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Re: I want my flying car!
What they dont have flying cars in scotland yet 
always the last to be upgraded hey 
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(sorry) warp speed would be cool 
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31-08-2005, 15:49
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Re: I want my flying car!
well. as I remember the old style phone boxes, which required you to 'press button B' when connected, in days when, for anyone to have a phone in the house was rare, I would suggest the mobile phone is pretty 'futuristic'.
- especially now they can do e-mail, surf the net, take pictures & play music, as well.
(p.s. I don't have one )
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31-08-2005, 15:53
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Re: I want my flying car!
talking about phones i want dr who's tardis 
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and i want the solar powered car of logans run 
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31-08-2005, 15:57
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Re: I want my flying car!
I was watching a documentary about the moonbase they built back in 1999, I was amazed I hadn't heard about before!
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31-08-2005, 16:00
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Re: I want my flying car!
moonbase alpha (calling capt keonig)
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31-08-2005, 17:07
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Re: I want my flying car!
I remember as a child (and no comments about how long ago that was!!!) seeing a programme were they said that we would be able to put pills in to a machine and it would come out the other end as a full roast dinner....hmm must have got lost along the way 
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31-08-2005, 17:26
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31-08-2005, 17:27
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Re: I want my flying car!
I read that there's been a moonbase that was occupied by the Japanese & Germans since 1954.
Will locate document and upload soon
http://www.subversiveelement.com/UFO...Moon_Base.html
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31-08-2005, 17:30
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Re: I want my flying car!
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Yup. I like that one. Think I'll order one right now...
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31-08-2005, 17:57
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Re: I want my flying car!
If I am REALLY nice to you will you buy me one as well please 
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31-08-2005, 17:59
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Re: I want my flying car!
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If I am REALLY nice to you will you buy me one as well please |
Define REALLY nice.
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31-08-2005, 18:02
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Re: I want my flying car!
Its like 2001 A Space odesey.
We dreamed of everything and everything back in those days as if the fact that we were going from a 19-- to a 20-- date changed things in to a hi-tec digital world used for everything in life. But reality is we are ages behind.
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31-08-2005, 18:24
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Re: I want my flying car!
Well Arthur C Clarke predicted the sallelite system over 30 years ago and RA Heinlein invented the water bed.Mind RAH also suggested we would catapault our astronauts at the moon. 
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