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Fairly Realistic Flying Car Offered for 2009 Delivery
An anonymous reader writes to tell us about yet another promise of a flying car. The Register is reporting on the latest from Terrafugia Inc called the "Transition" which is a combination car and airplane that runs on unleaded gas. The idea is that it's a car that you can drive to the nearest airstrip and, with the touch of a button, convert to an airplane, fly to an airstrip close to your goal, then convert back to a car to reach your ultimate destination. Of course, how many times have we been promised flying cars only to suffer in perpetual disappointment.
The star trek franchise does not depict "America in Space." It depicts "Idealized Former USSR in Space." And glosses over some pretty bleak notions about the value of human life. The bad guys are also metaphorically Soviet, so it's pretty confusing to say the least.
The rest of your screed is also nonsensical. Energy-to-weight ratios and the lack of star trek physics pretty much dictates that if flying cars are in the near future, they'll be "petrol" powered and rare. Or at least hydrocarbon powered, regardless of whether the hydrocarbons are from convenient underground puddles or Arizonan algal vats.
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In the US, meat pies and pot pies are very different things, though both usually contain meat. Not to be confused with mincemeat pies, which don't contain meat at all, minced or otherwise.
Do you really mean to imply that meat pies are in your country similar to pot pies in the US, or are you just trying to make an "Americans are stupid" joke? If so, ha ha, you got me. You're pretty clever, you sly fox. Not to mention erudite, cosmopolitan, and brave.
BTW, in the US, we call them "gas stations," "service stations," "rest stops" and "filling stations" depending on the circumstances, though generally "service station" is reserved garages which may or may not have pumps.
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Battered women. Sounds delicious.