what happened to science fiction?
2007-12-14 19:11:21 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
It all takes money. Hovercraft have been around for decades.
2007-12-14 19:16:27 · answer #1 · answered by einstein 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It stayed fiction. There is little benefit from a moon colony; the main use proposed would be for a fueling station for interplanetary probes, but that requires water being found on the moon, and so far it hasn't been. (For physical reasons, I very much doubt that any ever will be.) As for flying cars, there is some fairly simple physics you would have to work around: you either need a large airfoil (big wing), or HUGE amounts of power to lift the vehicle. Secondary problems include devising a lightweight transmission that can turn both wheels and a propeller. And light weight is crucial -- aircraft performance depends crucially on weight.
2007-12-15 03:18:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Futurology has a reputation for overprediction, particularly in science fiction.
Having said that, I've just been reading a book by a bloke who says we're *under-estimating* how different things will be in the future. He starts off with Moore's Law - you know, the one about computing power doubling every 18 months or so - and goes on to say that as the rate of technological change is exponential, and we are just at the point on the exponential curve where the rate of change is starting to become really big, that by the 2040s we'll all have the ability to copy our consciousness into computers.
People are calling this time "The Singularity", and they say that after it we won't even recognise the world as it is today. The book is called "The Singularity Is Near", by Ray Kurzweil.
2007-12-15 03:20:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We do have flying cars!
Didn't you watch TopGears or any of those tech. car shows?
Japan even invented some environment friendly type with solar powered generated & etc. run ones.
But mostly very expensive & can't be afforded by majority.
There's even one tested where it can run underwater & fly. It's no mumbo jumbo. Over the years, I've seen several prototypes of flying cars. Some were awesome, but some weren't that stable it's like fying a plane/helicopter.
Anyway for more info. refer to this link:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_car
2007-12-15 03:23:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
wait for it.. wait for it.... here it comes...
what the heck are you talking about... flyin cars..... give it a few more years... hey when i was a child i had a baby doll that was stuck in crawl her whole life and now they have ones that Sh*t and P*ss , when i got hurt they used to put that campo whats its face call stuff on our cuts that hurt more then getting hurt did... and u know what they have now.. fun little fing foam soap. you can watch kiddie shows on dvd, i never watched mine on dvds. We had tapes when i was little and not cds. milk didnt cost 4 bucks a galllon... and im only 19.... so in 19 years alot of sh*t has changed... i dont think we will ever have flying cars.. but cars that can drive themselfas.. oh yeah that would be bad @zzz...... its only a matter of time... whats that saying everything changes.. and the only thing that stays the same is everything changes.... moon colonies.. we have ant colonies... heheh
2007-12-15 03:19:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Patients, young man. NASA's working to take us back to the Moon by 2020, & hopes to start a perminant lunar colony by 2024 in the southern pole. Check out these links.
2007-12-15 03:17:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think Inventions started being suppressed in the '40s and included major inventions from inventors like Tesla. The Rockerfellers and the Rothschilds took them to give the US military dominance over America and the rest of the world and to keep inventions from reducing their money supply that things lile energy sources as in oil gave them.
2007-12-15 03:26:51 · answer #7 · answered by stale mate 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know right? I'm really disappointed. Not even jet packs or hovercrafts. The governments too busy spending our taxes on their bonuses instead of making our flying cars
2007-12-15 03:19:09 · answer #8 · answered by Abiku 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I grew up in the 60's -70's and I thought we'd at least have flying cars by now!
2007-12-15 03:14:01 · answer #9 · answered by Duelee 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's because there is no incentive to create any of those things. Technological innovation needs incentive/need. It's the same reason we don't study for our exams until the test date is right in front of us threatening us.
e.g. Hydrogen powered fuel cells have RAPIDLY advanced in the last few years because of the growing need/concern for alternative fuels.
2007-12-15 03:14:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have no flying cars because OPEC has too many lawmakers in its pockets to allow any real research.
2007-12-15 03:19:25 · answer #11 · answered by nytebreid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋