Where the F%@K are the flying cars????

[darogle]

Ok folks... 2005 is almost here. 2005!!! I don't know about you, but I grew up watching all sorts of TV, movies, cartoons, ect. and they PROMISED us flying cars by now!!

Remember the movie "2001"??? Hell, we were suppose to be contacting aliens 4 years ago!!!

I distinctly recall shows that held promises of flying cars, vacuum tube elevators, pills that you put into a microwave and came out gourmet meals, teleporters, the list goes on and on.

And what about ROBOTS?!?!? Where is my mechanical helper around the house? No, I'm not talking about the purple cock that vibrates and pulses. :p I'm talking about the plastic and metal android named "Tweeky" that cheerfully makes me my morning coffee, not to mention helps fend off the aliens that we were supposed to find 4 years ago.

:box: :rant:

[darogle]

That is all.....

Carry on.

[cherrypie7788]

I dont remember much of that lol

[cherrypie7788]

but I'll settle for a purple vibrating cock

[darogle]

but I'll settle for a purple vibrating cock

C'mon over... we have one! LOL :thumb:

[PantyFanatic]

Well, we got The Clapper, the Chea Pet and the singing fish. Does that count?:confused:


…… and don’t forget the FLYING MONKEYS :yikes:



:grin:

[darogle]

Granted, the clapper is cool and all......

[WildIrish]

And 10 years after the invention of the Chia Pet...we now have a Chia Scooby Doo! :rolleyes2


Good lord, if we had teleporters...nobody would get anything done!


And by nobody, I mean me. lmao

[IAKaraokeGirl]

<----has been begging for a teleporter here at Pixies *forever.* Even now that kleclere and I are together and not hours apart, it still could be...helpful on occasion. :D

[PantyFanatic]

<----has been begging for a teleporter here at Pixies *forever.* Even now that kleclere and I are together and not hours apart, it still could be...helpful on occasion. :D
Oh YES! :wiggles: You could use you Clapper to :teleport: your :bite: :fishy: over to your Chea Pet.











:bang:

[wyndhy]

Ok folks... 2005 is almost here. 2005!!! I don't know about you, but I grew up watching all sorts of TV, movies, cartoons, ect. and they PROMISED us flying cars by now!!

Remember the movie "2001"??? Hell, we were suppose to be contacting aliens 4 years ago!!!

I distinctly recall shows that held promises of flying cars, vacuum tube elevators, pills that you put into a microwave and came out gourmet meals, teleporters, the list goes on and on.

And what about ROBOTS?!?!? Where is my mechanical helper around the house? No, I'm not talking about the purple cock that vibrates and pulses. :p I'm talking about the plastic and metal android named "Tweeky" that cheerfully makes me my morning coffee, not to mention helps fend off the ens that we were supposed to find 4 years ago.

:box: :rant:

i'm working on it! these things take time. :p :D
/me could not even put together a rock em sock em robots game. :D

[Belial]

I want my...I want my...I want my hoverboard....


Back To The Future II made so many promises, eh?

[Cheyanne]

Flying cars you say??? ---> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/15/nextfest_wrap/
or http://www.moller.com/skycar/

Sorry - no Tweeky, but there is Asimo.. hehe http://asimo.honda.com/index.asp?bhcp=1

Looking for vacuum tube elevators??? Check it out here -----> http://www.daytonaelevator.com/Pneumatic%20Vacuum%20Elevators,%20Florida.htm

As fars as pills that you can put into a cooker of some sort and wahla- a whole meal pops out... that may not be too far off.... http://www.retrofuture.com/spacefood.html

LOL - IAKG! A teleporter may happen in your lifetime
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00014CBD-7633-1C76-9B81809EC588EF21

Kinda makes you wonder what else is being developed or worked on???

[dicksbro]

Cheyanne to the rescue. Woohoo! :)

[Sharni]

And what about ROBOTS?!?!? Where is my mechanical helper around the house? I'm talking about the plastic and metal android named "Tweeky" that cheerfully makes me my morning coffee, not to mention helps fend off the aliens that we were supposed to find 4 years ago.

They aint coming into my house.....i just watched the movie iRobot....not happening in my home....just too damn clever for our own good at times!

[imaginewithme]

darogle.....you are too funny!

[osuche]

I have a couple of robots in my home (my husband builds them) but I have yet to teach either of them to make a pot of coffee. WHat we *do* have is remote controlled systems (although why I need to monitor the temperature in my home from Key West I dunno) and lots of video cameras. <sigh>

I'd love that transporter, though....so we can work in CA and keep our comfy home in OH. :D

[Aqua]

...and lots of video cameras...
/me begins work on hacking into osuche's video camera network... :D

[Oldfart]

Molt Taylor's was not the only flying car.

Look at the ConvAircar and the Mizar at Google.

[osuche]

/me begins work on hacking into osuche's video camera network... :D

<giggles> Sounds like a good opportunity for my husband to test his security expertise. ;)

PS ~ Let me know if you need any inside assistance. :D

[LixyChick]

Now hold on a second son! *in my bestest motherly voice* Be careful what you wish for!

I just saw a documentary on the possibility that future robots could someday take over the world. The techno possibilties of their ability to learn is beyond our comprehension. And you say...but, in order to take over the world thay would have to be able to reproduce! Well...according to this show I saw, that's not too far fetched. If they can learn to do everything else on their own, including the ability to learn...what's to stop them from cloning themselves? And...if they are/become smarter than us...what would they need us for? We'd be like the human's in "Planet of the Apes". Take away their "heart"...or power source, you say? They already have our knowledge of nuclear power...there is no stopping their evolution!

OK...who wants a robot now? And remember...all shiny metal is NOT necessarily gold!

But, I really would like some of those "7 course meal pills". Oh...wait!...or one of those thingy replicator dealie-do's on The Enterprise...where you talk to it and ask for a cup of Earl Grey tea or a filet mignon...medium/well, and...VOILA...there it be!

[Scarecrow]

Just use Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics;

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

2. Arobot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3. A robot must protect its own existence, as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

Put these laws in its permanent operating system so that if removed the robot will not function, that way it will be clone into any new robots.

And the movie IRobot is not like the book.

[LixyChick]

Just use Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics;

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

2. Arobot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3. A robot must protect its own existence, as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

Put these laws in its permanent operating system so that if removed the robot will not function, that way it will be clone into any new robots.

And the movie IRobot is not like the book.
What if the "head" robot says to himself, "Fuck Isaac Asimov and the boat he floated in on"...and bans Isaac's stuff from robotdom forever!

Hey! Stranger things have happened!

*giggle*

[Scarecrow]

:bsflag: :nopics:

[LixyChick]

:bsflag: :nopics:
I just proposed the question...I didn't make it up...Oh...yes I did...NEVERMIND! LMFAO!

[Archon]

I've pondered the same question, I thought we'd all be bald and wearing glittery jumpsuits, sliding around in pnumatic tubes everywhere.

The AI takeover question is actually a serious one, Stephen Hawking for one has expressed concern - in some ways it's already true, banking investments are often run by huge derivitive programs delaing with billions of dollars, and when they make mistakes they can threaten the solvency of the whole system - Alan Greenspan was convicted of gold price fixing in the early 90's by the Swiss, he did it because derivitive programs had overexposed American banks to the point that if the price of gold had risen a few cents it would have wiped out every major bank in the country.

That's the kind of stuff to worry about right now, anything approaching an independently self aware AI is probobly quite a ways off, but ya never know.

[Oldfart]

Scarecrow

The Zero-eth Law, as proposed in the later robot books, changed the whole focus,

allowing robots to allow individual humans to be harmed for the good of the human totality.

Daneel Olivaw rules!

[BIBI]

OMG...visions of the movie "The Demon Seed" with the horny computer who wanted to procreate with Julie Christie....


and he did!!! lol

[Scarecrow]

Oldfart

R. Daneel was also telapathic and the Zero-eth law destroyed Giskard

[Oldfart]

Giskard was not as "evolved" or flexible as R Daneel.

He also didn't have the benefit of dealing with the Second Foundationers.

Daneel was not telepathic, he was an amazing brainwave analysis machine.

Sorry folks, later books from the I Robot series.