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10-06-2009, 01:58 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Massachusetts
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| The future they promised us, and other fun stuff I've been having fun wondering through this web site... Modern Mechanix If it has been posted before, then I'm sorry for the double post. I have been having a blast looking through all the old articles, and the fantastic illustrations...they even have a "war" topic.        The topic caledl "UselessTech" is pretty funny...   I'm sorry if you find this sort of thing a waste of time...but I kind'a get a kick out of this stuff!!!  |
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10-06-2009, 02:57 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland
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| What the.....? 
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10-06-2009, 04:28 AM
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| They should have gone ahead with the helicopter cavalry, that just looks fun I don't know how the world has managed without a tiny grand piano, think where we'd be now... |
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10-06-2009, 06:28 AM
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That's the real reason we're not zipping around in inexpensive solar powered flying cars, dammit! JL | |
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10-06-2009, 07:27 AM
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10-06-2009, 08:30 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Hurst, Texas
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| Where's MY flying car? Its the future, now, isn't it?
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10-06-2009, 08:10 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: South Carolina
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  | How funny is that!!
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10-06-2009, 10:19 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Redding, California
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| Forget the flying cars...where's the cloud cities and the Lunar & Mars vacation resorts???
__________________  "Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future." - Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome > I Support Doug Gillis < |
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10-07-2009, 10:37 AM
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| "Shooter"   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Moorpark, CA
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| The Helicopter cavalry illustration looks like an amusement park ride!.  But interestingly, today there is the Air Cav, who come in via helicopter. While not as amusing as the drawing, the concept was right.
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10-07-2009, 03:17 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Osaka
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| A corporation I was working for was manufacturing 3-dimensional acceleration sensor for jet fighter and space satellite. One day, the company had big order for Segway(R) to invest big money for new production line. Directors dreamed rose color future. Segway(R) did not comply with our traffic rules to sell. Also, production delayed becaused of unexpectedly larger production loss. Also, another bike maker introduced similar handy bike which cleared the rules. Result. The company was unable to get any profit till I quit six years ago though I do not know how it is now. My impression - No fantasy, no advance. Thanks for nice thread, proton45!
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10-07-2009, 05:47 PM
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| The Pop-Tart Whisperer   Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Jersey, United States
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10-07-2009, 07:08 PM
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10-07-2009, 09:49 PM
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Where's your sense of adventure?? That is the cavalry, after all!
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10-07-2009, 10:09 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Massachusetts
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It kind of reminds me of "GI Joe" adventures I had as a kid...does anyone remember Joe before the "PC" police got to him?      Tracks That Violence Leaves Are Americans becoming addicted to violence? And if so, does the violence that can be seen daily on television, for instance, contribute to the addiction? Dr. Victor Bailey Cline, a University of Utah clinical psychologist, has started a series of experiments which seem to him to point to a definite affirmative conclusion. In a one-seat theater in his Salt Lake City laboratory, Dr. Cline, left, and an associate, Dr. John Atzet, show motion pictures of kinds and degrees of violence to subjects hung with sensors that produce a physiograph (left) of their responses to what is appearing on the screen. Stylus tracings record, from top, respiration, skin moisture and two channels of heartbeat rate. Dr. Cline says that children who have watched television the most show the least response to episodes of violence. From this he has drawn some preliminary conclusions: we are creating violence addicts; the acts of violence the average child sees every 14 minutes in the 15 to 20 hours of TV he watches every week have already desensitized many of them. Beyond that, Dr. Cline believes these acts may become models which children will later imitate in real life. “I am convinced,” he says in this connection, “that any U.S. soldiers who shot down Vietnamese women and children at Mylai had been desensitized.” Last edited by proton45; 10-07-2009 at 10:12 PM. | |
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10-07-2009, 10:37 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Redding, California
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| I had a couple G.I. Joe "action figures" when I was a kid. They were as tall as my sister's Barbie (oh youl knew that was coming, huh?) and they didn't have beards or hair, it was painted on. I had the U.S. G.I. Joe and a German soldier with all the accessories (helmets, rifles, pistols plus extra gear). My friend had a couple G.I. Joes and a Japanese soldier AND a freakin' Jeep! (I hated him) I can't think of any of my friends that didn't have at least one G.I. Joe...
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