Transportation Retro-Futuristics

jpatokal writes "Flashback to the future with UC Berkeley's Transportation Futuristics! An excellent exhibition of amazing diagrams on how transportation was expected to evolve, featuring flying saucer buses, airplane escape pods and, yes, monorails. But where are the Segways and SUVs?"

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Stephen Hawkings Kills the Idea of Warp Speed

[Anonymous Coward]

When Stephen Hawkings clung stubbornly to the idea that black holes eventually collapse into nothing, he raised the prospect that traveling into a black hole will teleport you suddenly into another corner of the universe. However, he later renounced his previous belief. In a stunning admission of error, last week, he publically conceded that black holes eventually implode, releasing all the matter that it has vacuumed. So, Hawkings basically destroyed the idea of travel at Warp speed.

Sorry. We are doomed to live and die in this galaxy.

Re:Stephen Hawkings Kills the Idea of Warp Speed

[I7D]

A) We know this

B) Why did you bring it up? It has little to do with the topic

C) Its not unfeasable that we'd exit this galaxy. In fact there is another galaxy colliding with ours as we speak. (on the other side of it)

D) Thanks to special relativity, we can get to just about anywhere in a few years with constant acceleration, Earth will age much more quickly though.