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  1. 06-Mar-2007 #1
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    God I hope we get room temperature super-conductors soon!

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6412057.stm
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    y'know anything past were we learned about newtons in school was when i stopped finding phsyics interesting but that was pretty interesting stuff, does that mean in years to come youll be topping up your high powered super computer with lqiuid nitrogen to download a porno a minute?

    oh well, till then you have to dream.....whislt downloading filth at 56k

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    See, this is the kind of space-age sh*t I was promised as a boy watching Sci-Fi movies, and it's starting to happen - and also, could this be part of the solution to a cleaner running planet?

    What I also wanna see is that fuel cell car like they had on Top Gear a couple of years ago, it never needs to be refueled and you could swap the bodies over like a toy car, one day a car, the next a van and so on.
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    Now that would be groovy.
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    What Im looking forward is those advanced solar panals...
    They are highly efficient and make the current ones look entirely useless....

    On a sunny day if your roof was covered in them you would produce enough energy to power your entire house with enough energy left over to sell back to the power grid....

    They are going to be AWSOME!
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    and the goverment would problem stop there release for "economical reasons"

    THATS WHY THERES NO DAMN FLYING CAR!

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    Quote Originally Posted by hellsing View Post
    THATS WHY THERES NO DAMN FLYING CAR!
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    Quote Originally Posted by hellsing View Post
    THATS WHY THERES NO DAMN FLYING CAR!
    That there is no flying car is a blessing. You obviously haven't seen the same idiots on the freeways I have, or you would be afraid of them having another two directions to mess up in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marie View Post
    That there is no flying car is a blessing. You obviously haven't seen the same idiots on the freeways I have, or you would be afraid of them having another two directions to mess up in.

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    Just imagine this with flying cars (clips from Russian)!


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    as much as I am a total technology geek, I think there should be a point at which we should just take a look at where we are going with this. I've just heard that South Korea is planning a bill of rights for robots that prevent humans from abusing them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    Just imagine this with flying cars (clips from Russian)!
    Do the people of Russia not believe in stop lights or stop signs? .....
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    Why do I get the feeling that whenever flying cars arer mentioned, the clip from the Clerks X DVD should be posted?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cykotic View Post
    Why do I get the feeling that whenever flying cars arer mentioned, the clip from the Clerks X DVD should be posted?


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