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How Will We Get Around Near-Future Earth?

Slob Nerd points to this BBC article on future transport possibilities. It begins "The prospect of a revolution in air travel has been raised by Nasa's successful test of a 5,000mph plane. But are we likely to see similar advances in other forms of transport? Dusting off the crystal ball, what changes might come in the way we get around? What big ideas are out there, and do they have any chance of seeing the light of day?"

16 of 974 comments (clear)

  1. spammer's personal e-mail address by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    scottrichter422@yahoo.com yeah
    scottrichter422@yahoo.com scott
    scottrichter422@yahoo.com richter's
    scottrichter422@yahoo.com personal
    scottrichter422@yahoo.com e-mail

    FUCK OFF RICHTER AND ALL YOUR COHORTS!*

  2. It'll be the long-promised by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    nuclear powered flying cars.

  3. 17th post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ba ha

  4. Re:REPLY TO THIS POST IF YOU WANT TO DATE ME! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh yeah baby - i'll date you... so - you ahh... like fucking chickens? that's my favorite pasttime. chickens and geese - geese'll snap at ya while you give it to them, if ya poke em hard enough though, they stop...

    actually - you wouldnt happen to be a chicken or a goose would you? hell - i'd settle for a duck or a swan right now.. scuse me - getting hot and gotta go to the pond and find a "companion" for the night.

  5. I DO! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Of course, when you bend me down and fuck me gently, don't forget to give me the pink sock!

    With love,
    Rob Malda

  6. FUCKBEANS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    omgwtfbbq

  7. Behold the Power of the SHIT (Society Harbors Inte by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In the year 2525
    If man is still alive.
    If woman can survive, they may find.

    In the year 3535
    Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies.
    Everything you think, do and say, is in the pill you took today.

    In the year 4545
    Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes.
    You won't find a thing to chew.
    Nobody's gonna look at you.

    In the year 5555
    Your arms hanging limp at your sides.
    Your legs got nothing to do.
    Some machine doing that for you.

    In the year 6565
    Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife.
    You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too.
    From the bottom of a long glass tube. Whoa-oh

    In the year 7510
    If God's a-comin, he oughta make it by then.
    Maybe he'll look around himself and say.
    Guess it's time for the judgment day.

    In the year 8510
    God is gonna shake his mighty head.
    He'll either say.I'm pleased where man has been.
    Or tear it down and start again. Whoa-oh

    In the year 9595
    I'm kinda wonderin if man is gonna be alive.
    He's taken everything this old Earth can give.
    And he ain't put back nothing.Whoa-oh

    Now it's been ten thousand years
    Man has cried a billion tears.
    For what he never knew,
    now man's reign is through.

    But through eternal night.
    The twinkling of starlight.
    So very far away.
    Maybe it's only yesterday.

    In the year 2525
    If man is still alive.
    If woman can survive, they may find.

    In the year 3535
    504

  8. The Power of SHIT (Society Harbors Internet Terror by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In the year 2525
    If man is still alive.
    If woman can survive, they may find.

    In the year 3535
    Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies.
    Everything you think, do and say, is in the pill you took today.

    In the year 4545
    Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes.
    You won't find a thing to chew.
    Nobody's gonna look at you.

    In the year 5555
    Your arms hanging limp at your sides.
    Your legs got nothing to do.
    Some machine doing that for you.

    In the year 6565
    Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife.
    You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too.
    From the bottom of a long glass tube. Whoa-oh

    In the year 7510
    If God's a-comin, he oughta make it by then.
    Maybe he'll look around himself and say.
    Guess it's time for the judgment day.

    In the year 8510
    God is gonna shake his mighty head.
    He'll either say.I'm pleased where man has been.
    Or tear it down and start again. Whoa-oh

    In the year 9595
    I'm kinda wonderin if man is gonna be alive.
    He's taken everything this old Earth can give.
    And he ain't put back nothing.Whoa-oh

    Now it's been ten thousand years
    Man has cried a billion tears.
    For what he never knew,
    now man's reign is through.

    But through eternal night.
    The twinkling of starlight.
    So very far away.
    Maybe it's only yesterday.

    In the year 2525
    If man is still alive.
    If woman can survive, they may find.

    In the year 3535
    6074

  9. The Power of SHIT (Society Harbors Internet Terror by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In the year 2525
    If man is still alive.
    If woman can survive, they may find.

    In the year 3535
    Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies.
    Everything you think, do and say, is in the pill you took today.

    In the year 4545
    Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes.
    You won't find a thing to chew.
    Nobody's gonna look at you.

    In the year 5555
    Your arms hanging limp at your sides.
    Your legs got nothing to do.
    Some machine doing that for you.

    In the year 6565
    Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife.
    You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too.
    From the bottom of a long glass tube. Whoa-oh

    In the year 7510
    If God's a-comin, he oughta make it by then.
    Maybe he'll look around himself and say.
    Guess it's time for the judgment day.

    In the year 8510
    God is gonna shake his mighty head.
    He'll either say.I'm pleased where man has been.
    Or tear it down and start again. Whoa-oh

    In the year 9595
    I'm kinda wonderin if man is gonna be alive.
    He's taken everything this old Earth can give.
    And he ain't put back nothing.Whoa-oh

    Now it's been ten thousand years
    Man has cried a billion tears.
    For what he never knew,
    now man's reign is through.

    But through eternal night.
    The twinkling of starlight.
    So very far away.
    Maybe it's only yesterday.

    In the year 2525
    If man is still alive.
    If woman can survive, they may find.

    In the year 3535
    28286

  10. The Power of SHIT (Society Harbors Internet Terror by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In the year 2525
    If man is still alive.
    If woman can survive, they may find.

    In the year 3535
    Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies.
    Everything you think, do and say, is in the pill you took today.

    In the year 4545
    Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes.
    You won't find a thing to chew.
    Nobody's gonna look at you.

    In the year 5555
    Your arms hanging limp at your sides.
    Your legs got nothing to do.
    Some machine doing that for you.

    In the year 6565
    Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife.
    You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too.
    From the bottom of a long glass tube. Whoa-oh

    In the year 7510
    If God's a-comin, he oughta make it by then.
    Maybe he'll look around himself and say.
    Guess it's time for the judgment day.

    In the year 8510
    God is gonna shake his mighty head.
    He'll either say.I'm pleased where man has been.
    Or tear it down and start again. Whoa-oh

    In the year 9595
    I'm kinda wonderin if man is gonna be alive.
    He's taken everything this old Earth can give.
    And he ain't put back nothing.Whoa-oh

    Now it's been ten thousand years
    Man has cried a billion tears.
    For what he never knew,
    now man's reign is through.

    But through eternal night.
    The twinkling of starlight.
    So very far away.
    Maybe it's only yesterday.

    In the year 2525
    If man is still alive.
    If woman can survive, they may find.

    In the year 3535
    23854

  11. The Power of SHIT (Society Harbors Internet Terror by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In the year 2525
    If man is still alive.
    If woman can survive, they may find.

    In the year 3535
    Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies.
    Everything you think, do and say, is in the pill you took today.

    In the year 4545
    Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes.
    You won't find a thing to chew.
    Nobody's gonna look at you.

    In the year 5555
    Your arms hanging limp at your sides.
    Your legs got nothing to do.
    Some machine doing that for you.

    In the year 6565
    Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife.
    You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too.
    From the bottom of a long glass tube. Whoa-oh

    In the year 7510
    If God's a-comin, he oughta make it by then.
    Maybe he'll look around himself and say.
    Guess it's time for the judgment day.

    In the year 8510
    God is gonna shake his mighty head.
    He'll either say.I'm pleased where man has been.
    Or tear it down and start again. Whoa-oh

    In the year 9595
    I'm kinda wonderin if man is gonna be alive.
    He's taken everything this old Earth can give.
    And he ain't put back nothing.Whoa-oh

    Now it's been ten thousand years
    Man has cried a billion tears.
    For what he never knew,
    now man's reign is through.

    But through eternal night.
    The twinkling of starlight.
    So very far away.
    Maybe it's only yesterday.

    In the year 2525
    If man is still alive.
    If woman can survive, they may find.

    In the year 3535
    8821

  12. The Power of SHIT (Society Harbors Internet Terror by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In the year 2525
    If man is still alive.
    If woman can survive, they may find.

    In the year 3535
    Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies.
    Everything you think, do and say, is in the pill you took today.

    In the year 4545
    Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes.
    You won't find a thing to chew.
    Nobody's gonna look at you.

    In the year 5555
    Your arms hanging limp at your sides.
    Your legs got nothing to do.
    Some machine doing that for you.

    In the year 6565
    Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife.
    You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too.
    From the bottom of a long glass tube. Whoa-oh

    In the year 7510
    If God's a-comin, he oughta make it by then.
    Maybe he'll look around himself and say.
    Guess it's time for the judgment day.

    In the year 8510
    God is gonna shake his mighty head.
    He'll either say.I'm pleased where man has been.
    Or tear it down and start again. Whoa-oh

    In the year 9595
    I'm kinda wonderin if man is gonna be alive.
    He's taken everything this old Earth can give.
    And he ain't put back nothing.Whoa-oh

    Now it's been ten thousand years
    Man has cried a billion tears.
    For what he never knew,
    now man's reign is through.

    But through eternal night.
    The twinkling of starlight.
    So very far away.
    Maybe it's only yesterday.

    In the year 2525
    If man is still alive.
    If woman can survive, they may find.

    In the year 3535
    8974

  13. Re:Trains are in fine shape already. by Feanturi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If America makes Americans, then it should be Mexicons, Canadans, Francens, and Englandns.

  14. Re:REPLY TO THIS POST IF YOU WANT TO DATE ME! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Would you like some making fuck?

  15. Of course not by cgenman · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The Wheelman is much cooler.

    The wheelman is faster, cheaper, and has a greater operating range than the Segway. It is even very, very safe, so long as you would consider riding a skateboard at 20 MPH on asphault wearing nothing more than a bikini "safe".

  16. Re:Trains are in fine shape already. by hesiod · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    > If America makes Americans, then it should be Mexicons, Canadans, Francens, and Englandns.

    Oh wow, you are so smart pointing out inconsistencies of the English language. I had no idea there were any! Please be the mother of my children, I am truly in awe of your massive intellectual superiority. BTW, STFU.