Random thought

[unixronin]

"It's not so much that I hate my life, as that I find the Universe's current implementation of it deeply unsatisfactory.¹"

[1]  See also:  "It's 2008.  We're supposed to be launching manned missions to the outer solar system by now.  And where the !(*%&($% is my flying car?²"

[2]  No, the Möller Volantor doesn't qualify.  How many decades of development and he still can't fly it off a safety tether?  And I don't want to know what its fuel consumption is.  I already have a pretty good idea what its noise level must be — eight Wankel engines driving ducted fans?

Comments

[koyote.livejournal.com]

it *could* be flown off a tether...

And while it isn't quite as noisy as you'd think, it does make a tricked out GTO sound like a bicycle.

a lot of the problem is in size. We've been trained to think bigger bigger bigger, when if we were aiming for something like an old 70s honda 350 utility bike we'd BE there in flying cars.

I'll sya it as I often do- at least half (I would say something close to all) of our lack of fulfilled dreams boils down to an enforced false scarcity. As much from the greens as from the corporate/political power mongers. No one gets off free here. It's a case of monumental and deliberate fuckup.