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Nintentacle said: How do you qoute more than one comment? |
Oh, I just opened quote replies to both posts and copied one of them over.
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Nintentacle said: Anyways, yeah, Hollywood would never, ever lie to us. I can't believe flying cars will randomly poof into this world! |
Hey, the flying car is coming, dammit! You just wait and see! Any day now, I tell you!
And besides, we have until October 21st 2015. That's over a year away - anything could happen! That's plenty of time for us to have public skyways and hoverboards and extendable baseball bats and thumbprint door locks and home fax machines... uh, wait... scratch that last one. The point is that it could all happen! You don't know! You don't know!
Sorry, did I just have a nervous breakdown induced by my crushed childhood dreams?
Actually, in all seriousness, there have been many projects to create some kind of personal flying vehicle over the years. But even if they are successful, I somehow don't see them becoming a mainstream consumer product any time soon.
As for hoverboards, there have been projects on that front too, but I think their connection to hoverboards is a bit of a stretch. Inspired by the idea, perhaps, but bearing little real resemblance otherwise. Most of the attempts I've seen are more like personal hovercrafts than what we generally think of as "hoverboards".
There has been one "kind of real" hoverboard (and I'm not talking about the Youtube hoax a while back), but the catch is that you can't ride it. It's basically just a hoverboard prop that uses electromagnetism to hover above a platform. So yeah... it hovers but it can't carry any weight.
Well... I can pretend, can't I?
ColdFire - The man with no name.
