The "hover" age

[ARWINGCOMMANDER 3987]

I'm split at the moment, but right now I would like to hear your thoughts on the hover age. First of all, please think fully logically about the idea before you state your opinion. Opinions need facts.

[Xortberg]

Do explain what exactly you mean by "hover age," please. As it is, I can't make heads or tails of this shiznit.

["User"]

Do explain what exactly you mean by "hover age," please. As it is, I can't make heads or tails of this shiznit.

I'm assuming he's referring to "hovercraft", like more advanced VTOL vehicles.

[Guest Julius Quasar]

You ever read the book "Where's my jetpack!?" ? good book, it talks about this stuff.  It would be cool to have stuff like flying cars, jetpacks, and robot butlers.

[ARWINGCOMMANDER 3987]

Do explain what exactly you mean by "hover age," please. As it is, I can't make heads or tails of this shiznit.

See also: The Jetsons, Back To The Future trilogy, F-Zero, Wipeout and Full Throttle.

[Guest Julius Quasar]

My stupid  lazy parents need a damn robot butler, I sure as hell can't do it all around this place like they expect me to.  My older sisters never lifted a goddam finger around this house.

I'd LOVE a flying car (not a hover car, a flying car).

[The Shaper]

Well if the world was futuristic, maybe I would have second thoughts of destroying it.

[ARWINGCOMMANDER 3987]

Well if the world was futuristic, maybe I would have second thoughts of destroying it.

Hold that thought. *does this to emperoroflylat* WARNING! Blood and mild nudity. :P

[Robert Monroe]

Flying cars would be the biggest nightmare ever to control. You think traffic is bad when things are ON THE GROUND? Ha. Imagine road rage in the fvcking air.

[Kid_Cortet]

I'm more towards the flying cars and interstellar space travel :P

[ARWINGCOMMANDER 3987]

Flying cars would be the biggest nightmare ever to control. You think traffic is bad when things are ON THE GROUND? Ha. Imagine road rage in the fvcking air.

I said "please think fully logically about the idea before you state your opinion. Opinions need facts.". Even in this age there would be laws that apply to people driving both on the ground and in the air.

[Robert Monroe]

I said "please think fully logically about the idea before you state your opinion. Opinions need facts.". Even in this age there would be laws that apply to people driving both on the ground and in the air.

I am being logical. Durrr. Look at how hard it is to regulate GROUND traffic. Imagine how hard that would be in te AIR, where there is effectively NO BOUNDARIES. It would be chaos.

[StarFoxfan-FUR_ever]

Well Robert, I'm sure they would create laws regulating how high you are allowed to fly those things as to make an effort to control air traffic. It really is simple to keep track of if you think of ALL the possibilities.

[Guest Julius Quasar]

Flying cars would be the biggest nightmare ever to control. You think traffic is bad when things are ON THE GROUND? Ha. Imagine road rage in the fvcking air.

Oh yeah, huh?

In the words of Bill Watterson "Reality continues to ruin my life".

[Robert Monroe]

Well Robert, I'm sure they would create laws regulating how high you are allowed to fly those things as to make an effort to control air traffic. It really is simple to keep track of if you think of ALL the possibilities.

Yeah, and maybe one day there will be world peace, and endangered animals will make a comeback.

My point is that making said laws and enforcing them would be HELL. The sky is.... the sky! It has no boundaries, has no roads, and again, -ENFORCING- any law related to controlling high air traffic would be insane. This isn't even getting into shit like accident potential (imagine a 2 ton flying machine crashing into someones house. You think roadside wrecks are bad? Ha), and if you REALLY wanna get hardcore about it, the energy needed to lift something so big and keep it there would be much more than whats needed for ground propulsion, not to mention it wouldn't even control like a damn car in the first place.

Oh yeah, huh?

In the words of Bill Watterson "Reality continues to ruin my life".

Yeah, it sucks. Flying cars are a cool fantasy, and thats all they'll ever really be, even if the technology could allow it.

[ARWINGCOMMANDER 3987]

I am being logical. Durrr. Look at how hard it is to regulate GROUND traffic. Imagine how hard that would be in te AIR, where there is effectively NO BOUNDARIES. It would be chaos.

I didn't say hovercars could fly. They could only hover a couple feet above the ground maximum if need be.

Yeah, it sucks. Flying cars are a cool fantasy, and thats all they'll ever really be, even if the technology could allow it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYJmS9rTRh4 Something that fast can't possibly turn on wheels, can it?

[Robert Monroe]

I didn't say hovercars could fly. They could only hover a couple feet above the ground maximum if need be.

Something that fast can't possibly turn on wheels, can it?

If thats the case, then its still stupid, because hovering uses a lot more energy to maintain being aloft.

Also your lik is broken, but I will remind you that 1: G-3 is a VIDEO GAME (and a racing one at that) and 2: there is no need for a ground civilian vehicle to be that fast.

Not to mention the vehicles in G-3 do in fact have wheels.

[ARWINGCOMMANDER 3987]

If thats the case, then its still stupid, because hovering uses a lot more energy to maintain being aloft.

Also your lik is broken, but I will remind you that 1: G-3 is a VIDEO GAME (and a racing one at that) and 2: there is no need for a ground civilian vehicle to be that fast.

Not to mention the vehicles in G-3 do in fact have wheels.

They'd just have to work on the technology first then. I didn't mean for civilian vehicles to pass 500 mph, I meant racing vehicles.

[Vulvokunvrii]

I say its a great idea because look at the V-22 Osprey and Harrier close support jet; think of what we could accomplish, once the economy gets back on the horse.

[Robert Monroe]

They'd just have to work on the technology first then. I didn't mean for civilian vehicles to pass 500 mph, I meant racing vehicles.

Racing vehicles can already go that fast.

I say its a great idea because look at the V-22 Osprey and Harrier close support jet; think of what we could accomplish, once the economy gets back on the horse.

The Harrier jet is one of the most notoriously difficult planes to control and master. Thats not to say its a bad plane by any means, but actually learning how to use the damn thing is a badge of honor.

[Guest Julius Quasar]

I hate to say this, but if flying or even hovering cars existed, they'd cost a fortune for the longest time....and the flying cars would always be heavily regulated by the DMV and the FAA.

[ARWINGCOMMANDER 3987]

I hate to say this, but if flying or even hovering cars existed, they'd cost a fortune for the longest time....and the flying cars would always be heavily regulated by the DMV and the FAA.

I know, but they're not available for commercial use.

Racing vehicles can already go that fast.

Can they turn or not?

[Robert Monroe]

Can they turn or not?

Wouldn't know myself. But either way, it would be a useless and pointless change in technology, unless you consider amping up the danger an improvement.

[Guest SCoatiH]

You ever read the book "Where's my jetpack!?" ? good book, it talks about this stuff.  It would be cool to have stuff like flying cars, jetpacks, and robot butlers.

So true man!

I hate to say this, but if flying or even hovering cars existed, they'd cost a fortune for the longest time....and the flying cars would always be heavily regulated by the DMV and the FAA.

At first, o' course. Things become cheaper and more common as time passes. Like the internet. At first only the military used it, then today, most people have a computer at home (with internet).

[ARWINGCOMMANDER 3987]

Wouldn't know myself. But either way, it would be a useless and pointless change in technology, unless you consider amping up the danger an improvement.

There would be safety modifications to be made. It's mostly for us to see where we can take automobile technology. Science is about trying different ideas to see if they work after all.

Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBUOCK3FZxg&feature=related All they have to do now is work out the kinks, and I don't mean just the technological stuff.