I still want my flying car

Don't you ever wonder what happened to the future?

I could rant about how scientific advancement and especially space exploration need funding from government types who have a lot more important pork barrel projects than actually trying to send a man to Mars.

and I could rant of how we have the technology to do alot of stuff but we all hate each other too much and we're too greedy

yea and we (and i mean everywhere but New Zealand) are not all that foucused on realy new stuff but we look at what we dont have yet and make a fuss.

why do we need money they should just have evrything for free than that means no jealusy no war or terroism wala world peace

but do u think it would work

money is basically an inmediate form of trade. Yes we could live with out money but that would be me getting religous as well. lol still getting rid of money would not solve greed and pride.

Just a couple of months ago I was helping my son with a homework project researching Henry Hudson and other 16th and 17th century explorers. Most of the exploratory missions that opened up the American continent were funded by private companies interested in exploration (and making money off the trade routes and resources they could discover). The government heavily encouraged this (so they could get the taxes off of it). Even though expeditions were lost all the time to natural and un-natural (pirates, mutiny, natives unhappy about being forced into slavery) causes, it was considered part of the risk of the venture.

But companies these days have to worry that they'll get sued out of existence if something (like the mutiny that happened to Mr. Hudson) went wrong. If a space ship got lost or a crewman died the company would spend the next 30 years tied up in wrongful death lawsuits. All other private launches would be suspended for 5 years or more while the investigations into what went wrong dragged on with everyone involved pointing fingers of liability at one another. The other companies would loose mega bucks with their projects on hold, and then be forced to spend millions of dollars more making the tweaks and fixes the government would force everyone to make (just like they did with the airlines this last month).

That's why the flying car idea is taking so long to develop. They have to guarantee the things are impossibly safe. That even the most crazy pilot couldn't crash it. (The FAA certified Moller air car is still at least 4 years away from any sort of actual mass production - no one can guess when, or if, the insurance companies will OK the thing.)

So what happened to my flying car? Ask the Lawyers.

I don't want to ask my parents

the only reason we dont have warp drives and whole quadrant wars with the dominon is becouse of health and safty try letting them loose in star trek (jem hadar soilder were suing u for destroying that akira class its stupid)thats why nobody has there flying cars or personall spaceship

I think there's a bit more to it than that...

Don't kill me angry people. please don't kill me I beg you!

Thank you for emphasizing my point!
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i say get all the smart people so that means me and evryone on this forum as we are like crazy cyber nerds with super huge brains and steven hawkins and ma science teacher (she knows how to make loads of cool stuff)and go live on mars

Yay! Shotgun the leech position, because I think I'm much thicker than you guys at most things.

well im the worst at english here but im top of my class(set 1)at science and im getting put in a higher group for my gcse,s

I'm good at science, just not physics, and I'm okay at English. I just hail you all as computing overlords.

so let me get this straight at the age of 13 im meant to have hacking skills

yea but what is ethicalhacking teach me

oh I have only got $20

lol. busy with it!