Yeah, I saw that episode of 24 also--even if you turn off your cell phone, towers can still passively locate you.
I think this is a great idea really and provides an interesting solution to a complex problem. And again if you don't want to take part, just turn off your phone. But honestly--what can we do about it anyway? Our phones are already being tracked by the phone companies, so your paranoid tin-foil-hat people have already lost the battle for anonymity. Get over it people! Big Brother is watching you...if you do anything wrong.:)
Stop being so bloody pessimistic! FTL travel is known to be possible through bending space-time or simply using artificially created wormholes (assuming energy supplies are available). Teleportation has already been shown a minor success with photons. The zero-point energy field has been proven to exist. And gravity--that most elusive yet down-to-earth riddle--is currently under assault by both academia and amateurs in attempt to understand it better and crack it. So why is science fiction the opiate of the geek masses?
I contend what many others contend too: science fiction is science future. It's what people want to exist, and it's what encourages young aspiring engineers and scientists to work hard in school--to bring about a better future for everyone (and to profit along the way). Honestly, who would have thought 100 years ago that we would have cell phones? Airplanes globetrotting the planet? Rockets to the moon? These were all ideas of science fiction, once thought to be impossible, but again proven to be possible.
Oh, you may argue how ignorant people were back then: no Einstein, no aerospace engineering, no computers--so why are we all of a sudden so much better than our predecessors? I'm sure 100 years from now, people will marvel at our stupendous stupidity. No antigravity, fossil fuels as our primary energy supply, and no starships! Who were these primates, they might ask? And how did they survive without sub-space communication systems?
Science fiction drives us towards a better future and gives hope to those who are not tolerated to dream--scientists. Science is a historically conservative field, unwilling to accept breakthroughs without serious resistance. I recall reading an article from a Johns Hopkins professor about a week before the first Wright Brothers flight where it was stated that manned flight was utterly impossible. And remember the inquisition of Galileo before the Catholic Church? Planets revolving around the sun? Heresy!
This trend will continue indefinitely, and I have no doubt that the next 100 years will give us plenty to look forward to. I just hope I get to see it all, and maybe pitch in along the way. Stay tuned.:-)
So we go to Cornell... It's in the middle of nowhere but we really don't care.
MIT, Cal Tech, Cornell, Stanford -- whatever. Just get some young blood designing the hardware and some young entrepreneurs coming up with ways to make space exploration affordable, efficient, and exciting!
I'd go a step further. Bring in REAL engineers as well as entrepreneurs. Get guys with some ambition and a sense for getting a goal completed. Triage your remaining senior staff and fill it up with young MIT grads.
Hear hear! The geek shall inherit the earth! It's true though: geeks are taking over the world. (I use the word geek rather than nerd because nerd is actually less sociable and arguably less employable than a geek) But then again geeks have ruled the earth for a long time; it's just now we're starting to get women for it. Lock and load your calculators, boys, we're going to get laid. Onward!
Isn't anyone out there working to remove this deficiency in flash drives? You don't really think of RAM running out of writes or wearing down after 10,000 writes. I'm all for moving to a solid-state storage world, but if no one can make a solid state storage device like flash work indefinitely, it will not prevail. I'm sure someone out there is trying to fix this... aren't they? This is a persistent problem that I haven't seen addressed.
Love those annoying slashdotters who only post sly remarks to every Ask Slashdot question. Reminds me of the CS lists back at school.
Virtual Reality is pretty much dead in the public world. There are still companies/organizations using it (e.g. NASA, Boeing) for special applications, but the idea of going to your local Best Buy and picking up the Lawnmower Man 3000 headgear/gloves/suit unit is far off.
I've been asking this question myself for a while, WHY is VR dead and why hasn't anyone given it a second go. Back in the 90's people were really looking forward to it, but it crashed pretty hard with such failures as (again) the movie Lawnmower Man and the horrible Nintendo Virtual Boy head unit that caused neck stress and had a pathetic monochrome display (red and black).
I think back then, there were a lot of deficiencies in technology working against "common" VR.
No high-speed Internet. My high school's "fat" pipe was a 56K frame relay and that was blazing. No one had DSL/cable modems.
The 3D gaming revolution (started by 3dfx) hadn't yet taken off -- this was more towards 98 and later, and it has continued since. So graphics were terrible making the "virtual" reality hard to believe. Now just look at Half-Life 2. Wait for X-Box 2, it's going to blow your mind.
No wireless. Everyone was bound to a keyboard/mouse with cables, so the idea of a unit that you could really move in was impractical due to a mess of cables.
Software wasn't that great in virtual worlds. Remember the promise of VRML? Do you even know what VRML is? Exactly. And if you do know, you may have tried it and lost interest within a few minutes.
Pathetic online gaming. We just hadn't reached the levels of online gaming we have nowadays, with much thanks to the above technologies (as well as incredibly fast CPUs). Back then, Kali was still the best way to play Warcraft 2 over the Internet. Battle.net was still far off until the later 90's, and no one had yet produced a game on par with Everquest, WOW, etc.
So we weren't really "ready" for VR then, but I think we're a lot closer nowadays. But as to what company is going to be the "3dfx of VR"? I haven't a clue. I haven't heard of any companies pushing out a revolutionary head unit or glove/suit combo. And I haven't heard of anyone coding a DirectX extension for head tracking in first person shooter games yet, although I'm sure it's doable.
This is somewhat a chicken and the egg problem: no one has really tried to do this, and there won't be any real push for it until someone thinks it's worth trying! A company would literally have to create a great solution to the problem and by word of mouth, good reviews, and a bunch of game updates, create the demand for it as well.
Is that company out there? I certainly hope so. I would love to play World of Warcraft but the idea of hacking someone to pieces with a mouse just doesn't appeal to me anymore. I'd rather hold some hand tracking and actually make the gesticulations mimicking a slashing move, and mayb use my left hand tracker as a shield against the oncoming hoards. And what about 3D viewing with a helmet? How awesome would it be to "watch your back" by actually turning your head?
I think the biggest technological problem is the head tracking unit. It needs to be light enough that you don't notice it, but immersive as well, with great sound and visuals. And the screen can't give you a headache after 15 minutes or force you to throw up due to the motion sickness. So if someone can solve that problem, and produce a lightweight hardware solution that doesn't cost an arm and a leg, they might just have a shot. Maybe if there existed a head unit with gloves (all spatially tracked, perhaps using bluetooth for the gloves), with decent sound, all for under $300, you might have a strong market not only in PCs but also consoles.
So onward, O Entrepreneurs! Bring us into virtual reality!
The Tivo-Netflix agreement should give Netflix the advantage for a while (assuming Netflix ever gets around to launching this service, which is due in 2005). Tivo is already available in millions of homes in the US, whereas Blockbuster currently has no vehicle for delivery into the home market.
The real competitor would be something like Comcast-Netflix (or even just Comcast). With millions of cable company-endorsed DVRs each storing 80+ GB of video, and assuming 4 Mbps connections to download movies, Blockbuster could easily take a serious hit by the cable companies themselves. This is already available to a smaller degree in the form of On Demand, but imagine searching EVERY DVD every produced through the convenience of your remote control and having access to all titles for $10-15 per month extra.
Hurry up! I want to never have to buy a DVD again!
Yeah, even if the movie did over-dramatize the work at Houston, I still admire the older NASA for its guts and glory. If Jim Lovell said to reporters or senators today, "Imagine if Christopher Columbus had come back from the New World and no one returned in his footsteps," I'm sure the reaction would be "we'd save money for spending on worthless social programs."
Windows is the dominant operating system, and anyone writing viruses always targets the platform that would have the largest impact. Trust me, we'll start seeing Firefox vulnerabilities if it gains > 10% market share. Macs are holding strong at 4% so there are only a handful of potential viruses there.
Many times people ask why they can't protect their OS more. Uncle Sam has measures in place that ensure Microsoft can't have monopolies, which is why MS doesn't include antivirus software as standard issue on their OS. McAfee, Symantec, et al. would cry monopoly in a heartbeat and we'd have yet another lawsuit.
Remember what many of you out there who are Americans already know: it's tough being on top. Remember how everyone hated the British empire for so long, or how about the Roman empire? Whoever is the dominant player will be the most revered as well as the most hated.
Mishaps like these are what make me grind my teeth when thinking about NASA and the space program. I've always been a staunch supporter of the space program, but failures like these make me question their value. How could however many dozen PhD's who spent 18 years FORGET to turn on an experiment like this? You'd think there'd be an if (module.enabled) {} check somewhere in the code that would throw a master alarm in the else {} clause.
This is why Burt Rutan et al. will continue to succeed: failure is not an option! If you forget to enable a system that cost millions of dollars, you're out of business.
Not that the mission is a total loss. But I'm still baffled by how NASA can make these mistakes. They're the type of mistakes that give some credibility to the conspiracy theorists, arguing that NASA didn't really lose the Mars Observer, the Polar Lander, or the Mars Climate Orbiter. Rather, NASA found evidence of extraterrestrial life and is covering it up. We probably won't know until the second space race heats up, with China, India and perhaps Brazil, but also Rutan, Branson, Bezos, et al. gunning for the moon and Mars. Onward!
Read Power Sleep by Dr. Maas. All students who took his PSYCH101 class know that the more you sleep the healthier you are (and the lighter you are) because it's only in deep sleep that your body can release the appropriate hormones that gauge how over/underweight you are and adjust accordingly. Undergraduates are some of the most sleep-deprived members of society (especially at his school, Cornell) and are operating at suboptimal levels for months on end! So when you get out of school, SLEEP! I'm getting 9 hours per night and loving it.
The Google interviews were fun since each one involved a mental puzzle. I had a total of 11 interviews over the phone, online, in NYC, and in Mountain View. They were fun people to talk to, although I can see how everyone perceives them as super cocky.
Actually I'd gladly pay $20/month to get an unlimited Netflix on my Internet. I want access to every damn movie ever put on DVD and every Discovery Channel special, all available within a few remote control clicks.
Frankly, I do pay for all of this stuff. I'm more concerned with the Internet users who are eating up 35% of internet bandwidth on bittorrent. What of these people?
Besides, people have always pirated and will always pirate. What's funnier is seeing desperate, technologically incompetent Hollywood executives scrambling to add another layer of protection to their forms of media. Get over it! You can't beat the hackers!
This is terrible! Where will people get their movies now? Applications? Games? Let's just hope that SuprNova continues to develop the decentralized P2P bittorrent network they were talking about. Beta testing ended a few weeks ago, so perhaps we're getting close to a release candidate.
You are correct that hard disks have ranges on their writes, but it's somewhere over a million. 10,000 vs. a million is a significant difference.
I'd be happy to have solid-state storage in general though. Using a PDA sometimes seems like lightning compared to an older system that's always waiting around to fetch pages from disk. If they can get 1 TB of storage on a flash disk to keep up with the rate of traditional disks, I'd be a happy camper.
Then of course there is the problem of slower read/write to flash.
you can't run a computer with these chips as secondary memory because the cells still die out after 10,000 or so writes to them. When will they develop everlasting flash memory chips?
I've been emailing them asking them to do this for years. I'm glad someone is finally doing it! There is only one problem: how do they get past copyright violations? I tried to get Cornell to do this on campus, but they said a lot of their volumes (periodicals, in particular) were still under copyright and hence cannot be scanned. No, it doesn't make any sense to leave these carbon books literally fall apart when we can preserve them forever digitally, but that's the name of the game.
Someone hurry up with nanostorage so I can store the entire content of human knowledge on a postage stamp (with nanosecond seek time and gigabyte transfer speeds, of course)
it's anonymous. I don't want to get sued for downloading the Seinfeld Reunion special. They should use a protocol like herbivore to guarantee anonymity. Then I'd be set!
Actually, I can. I had read about these alleged "journals" that were reporting on antigravity, and I like you was skeptical. So I went to my university's library and browsed through periodicals from 1954 to 1957. Oh, what a pleasure that was. Searching for a few keywords in headlines in books that weighed about 20 lbs each. I found numerous journals such as Interavia as well as a few popular science magazines that were talking about this coming revolution. The big players were in England, but the big American inventor was Thomas Townsend Brown. I even have the articles scanned if you want them!
Well, I guess we're out of luck for cold fusion, so now let's all throw our support to zero point energy! Come on, Tesla believed in it! And he invented the radio and alternating current!
In the 1950's a lot of aerospace journals were talking about antigravity research (specifically, electro-gravitics). They said it was a coming revolution and that by the late 1960's or early 1970's it would be cracked and everyone would be zipping around the planet at 5,000 mph. Then by 1957 all the mentions in the journals ended without conclusions. It just disappeared.
Bottom line: technologies like antigravity and cold fusion will continue to be ignored because their implications on the modern military-industrial complex. Can you imagine a world where anyone can fly anywhere in under an hour for FREE? I would love to see that world, but unfortunately the powers that be don't.
So it goes. I'm going to lick my wounds by driving in my gas guzzling 1989 Dodge Caravan to the nearby pub and drown my sorrows in the bleak future we all face.
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Good catch! I knew it was a quote from a movie but I couldn't remember which one! Cheers :)
Yeah, I saw that episode of 24 also--even if you turn off your cell phone, towers can still passively locate you.
:)
I think this is a great idea really and provides an interesting solution to a complex problem. And again if you don't want to take part, just turn off your phone. But honestly--what can we do about it anyway? Our phones are already being tracked by the phone companies, so your paranoid tin-foil-hat people have already lost the battle for anonymity. Get over it people! Big Brother is watching you...if you do anything wrong.
Better than our current slogan, "I would found an institution where ... " yada yada yada. "Making theft more efficient" is something to be proud of!
Stop being so bloody pessimistic! FTL travel is known to be possible through bending space-time or simply using artificially created wormholes (assuming energy supplies are available). Teleportation has already been shown a minor success with photons. The zero-point energy field has been proven to exist. And gravity--that most elusive yet down-to-earth riddle--is currently under assault by both academia and amateurs in attempt to understand it better and crack it. So why is science fiction the opiate of the geek masses?
:-)
I contend what many others contend too: science fiction is science future. It's what people want to exist, and it's what encourages young aspiring engineers and scientists to work hard in school--to bring about a better future for everyone (and to profit along the way). Honestly, who would have thought 100 years ago that we would have cell phones? Airplanes globetrotting the planet? Rockets to the moon? These were all ideas of science fiction, once thought to be impossible, but again proven to be possible.
Oh, you may argue how ignorant people were back then: no Einstein, no aerospace engineering, no computers--so why are we all of a sudden so much better than our predecessors? I'm sure 100 years from now, people will marvel at our stupendous stupidity. No antigravity, fossil fuels as our primary energy supply, and no starships! Who were these primates, they might ask? And how did they survive without sub-space communication systems?
Science fiction drives us towards a better future and gives hope to those who are not tolerated to dream--scientists. Science is a historically conservative field, unwilling to accept breakthroughs without serious resistance. I recall reading an article from a Johns Hopkins professor about a week before the first Wright Brothers flight where it was stated that manned flight was utterly impossible. And remember the inquisition of Galileo before the Catholic Church? Planets revolving around the sun? Heresy!
This trend will continue indefinitely, and I have no doubt that the next 100 years will give us plenty to look forward to. I just hope I get to see it all, and maybe pitch in along the way. Stay tuned.
So we go to Cornell...
It's in the middle of nowhere but we really don't care.
MIT, Cal Tech, Cornell, Stanford -- whatever. Just get some young blood designing the hardware and some young entrepreneurs coming up with ways to make space exploration affordable, efficient, and exciting!
I'd go a step further. Bring in REAL engineers as well as entrepreneurs. Get guys with some ambition and a sense for getting a goal completed. Triage your remaining senior staff and fill it up with young MIT grads.
Hear hear! The geek shall inherit the earth! It's true though: geeks are taking over the world. (I use the word geek rather than nerd because nerd is actually less sociable and arguably less employable than a geek) But then again geeks have ruled the earth for a long time; it's just now we're starting to get women for it. Lock and load your calculators, boys, we're going to get laid. Onward!
Isn't anyone out there working to remove this deficiency in flash drives? You don't really think of RAM running out of writes or wearing down after 10,000 writes. I'm all for moving to a solid-state storage world, but if no one can make a solid state storage device like flash work indefinitely, it will not prevail. I'm sure someone out there is trying to fix this... aren't they? This is a persistent problem that I haven't seen addressed.
Virtual Reality is pretty much dead in the public world. There are still companies/organizations using it (e.g. NASA, Boeing) for special applications, but the idea of going to your local Best Buy and picking up the Lawnmower Man 3000 headgear/gloves/suit unit is far off.
I've been asking this question myself for a while, WHY is VR dead and why hasn't anyone given it a second go. Back in the 90's people were really looking forward to it, but it crashed pretty hard with such failures as (again) the movie Lawnmower Man and the horrible Nintendo Virtual Boy head unit that caused neck stress and had a pathetic monochrome display (red and black).
I think back then, there were a lot of deficiencies in technology working against "common" VR.
So we weren't really "ready" for VR then, but I think we're a lot closer nowadays. But as to what company is going to be the "3dfx of VR"? I haven't a clue. I haven't heard of any companies pushing out a revolutionary head unit or glove/suit combo. And I haven't heard of anyone coding a DirectX extension for head tracking in first person shooter games yet, although I'm sure it's doable.
This is somewhat a chicken and the egg problem: no one has really tried to do this, and there won't be any real push for it until someone thinks it's worth trying! A company would literally have to create a great solution to the problem and by word of mouth, good reviews, and a bunch of game updates, create the demand for it as well.
Is that company out there? I certainly hope so. I would love to play World of Warcraft but the idea of hacking someone to pieces with a mouse just doesn't appeal to me anymore. I'd rather hold some hand tracking and actually make the gesticulations mimicking a slashing move, and mayb use my left hand tracker as a shield against the oncoming hoards. And what about 3D viewing with a helmet? How awesome would it be to "watch your back" by actually turning your head?
I think the biggest technological problem is the head tracking unit. It needs to be light enough that you don't notice it, but immersive as well, with great sound and visuals. And the screen can't give you a headache after 15 minutes or force you to throw up due to the motion sickness. So if someone can solve that problem, and produce a lightweight hardware solution that doesn't cost an arm and a leg, they might just have a shot. Maybe if there existed a head unit with gloves (all spatially tracked, perhaps using bluetooth for the gloves), with decent sound, all for under $300, you might have a strong market not only in PCs but also consoles.
So onward, O Entrepreneurs! Bring us into virtual reality!
The Tivo-Netflix agreement should give Netflix the advantage for a while (assuming Netflix ever gets around to launching this service, which is due in 2005). Tivo is already available in millions of homes in the US, whereas Blockbuster currently has no vehicle for delivery into the home market.
The real competitor would be something like Comcast-Netflix (or even just Comcast). With millions of cable company-endorsed DVRs each storing 80+ GB of video, and assuming 4 Mbps connections to download movies, Blockbuster could easily take a serious hit by the cable companies themselves. This is already available to a smaller degree in the form of On Demand, but imagine searching EVERY DVD every produced through the convenience of your remote control and having access to all titles for $10-15 per month extra.
Hurry up! I want to never have to buy a DVD again!
Yeah, even if the movie did over-dramatize the work at Houston, I still admire the older NASA for its guts and glory. If Jim Lovell said to reporters or senators today, "Imagine if Christopher Columbus had come back from the New World and no one returned in his footsteps," I'm sure the reaction would be "we'd save money for spending on worthless social programs."
GO BIG RED!!!
Far above Cayuga's waters
With its waves of blue
Stands our noble alma mater
Glorious to view
Lift the chorus, speed it onward
Loud her praises tell
Hail to thee, our alma mater
Hail, all hail, Cornell
Far above the busy humming
Of the bustling town
Reared against the arch of heaven
Looks she proudly down
Lift the chorus, speed it onward
Loud her praises tell
Hail to thee, our alma mater
Hail, all hail, Cornell
Windows is the dominant operating system, and anyone writing viruses always targets the platform that would have the largest impact. Trust me, we'll start seeing Firefox vulnerabilities if it gains > 10% market share. Macs are holding strong at 4% so there are only a handful of potential viruses there.
Many times people ask why they can't protect their OS more. Uncle Sam has measures in place that ensure Microsoft can't have monopolies, which is why MS doesn't include antivirus software as standard issue on their OS. McAfee, Symantec, et al. would cry monopoly in a heartbeat and we'd have yet another lawsuit.
Remember what many of you out there who are Americans already know: it's tough being on top. Remember how everyone hated the British empire for so long, or how about the Roman empire? Whoever is the dominant player will be the most revered as well as the most hated.
Mishaps like these are what make me grind my teeth when thinking about NASA and the space program. I've always been a staunch supporter of the space program, but failures like these make me question their value. How could however many dozen PhD's who spent 18 years FORGET to turn on an experiment like this? You'd think there'd be an if (module.enabled) {} check somewhere in the code that would throw a master alarm in the else {} clause.
This is why Burt Rutan et al. will continue to succeed: failure is not an option! If you forget to enable a system that cost millions of dollars, you're out of business.
Not that the mission is a total loss. But I'm still baffled by how NASA can make these mistakes. They're the type of mistakes that give some credibility to the conspiracy theorists, arguing that NASA didn't really lose the Mars Observer, the Polar Lander, or the Mars Climate Orbiter. Rather, NASA found evidence of extraterrestrial life and is covering it up. We probably won't know until the second space race heats up, with China, India and perhaps Brazil, but also Rutan, Branson, Bezos, et al. gunning for the moon and Mars. Onward!
Read Power Sleep by Dr. Maas. All students who took his PSYCH101 class know that the more you sleep the healthier you are (and the lighter you are) because it's only in deep sleep that your body can release the appropriate hormones that gauge how over/underweight you are and adjust accordingly. Undergraduates are some of the most sleep-deprived members of society (especially at his school, Cornell) and are operating at suboptimal levels for months on end! So when you get out of school, SLEEP! I'm getting 9 hours per night and loving it.
The Google interviews were fun since each one involved a mental puzzle. I had a total of 11 interviews over the phone, online, in NYC, and in Mountain View. They were fun people to talk to, although I can see how everyone perceives them as super cocky.
Actually I'd gladly pay $20/month to get an unlimited Netflix on my Internet. I want access to every damn movie ever put on DVD and every Discovery Channel special, all available within a few remote control clicks.
Frankly, I do pay for all of this stuff. I'm more concerned with the Internet users who are eating up 35% of internet bandwidth on bittorrent. What of these people?
Besides, people have always pirated and will always pirate. What's funnier is seeing desperate, technologically incompetent Hollywood executives scrambling to add another layer of protection to their forms of media. Get over it! You can't beat the hackers!
This is terrible! Where will people get their movies now? Applications? Games? Let's just hope that SuprNova continues to develop the decentralized P2P bittorrent network they were talking about. Beta testing ended a few weeks ago, so perhaps we're getting close to a release candidate.
You are correct that hard disks have ranges on their writes, but it's somewhere over a million. 10,000 vs. a million is a significant difference.
I'd be happy to have solid-state storage in general though. Using a PDA sometimes seems like lightning compared to an older system that's always waiting around to fetch pages from disk. If they can get 1 TB of storage on a flash disk to keep up with the rate of traditional disks, I'd be a happy camper.
Then of course there is the problem of slower read/write to flash.
you can't run a computer with these chips as secondary memory because the cells still die out after 10,000 or so writes to them. When will they develop everlasting flash memory chips?
I've been emailing them asking them to do this for years. I'm glad someone is finally doing it! There is only one problem: how do they get past copyright violations? I tried to get Cornell to do this on campus, but they said a lot of their volumes (periodicals, in particular) were still under copyright and hence cannot be scanned. No, it doesn't make any sense to leave these carbon books literally fall apart when we can preserve them forever digitally, but that's the name of the game.
Someone hurry up with nanostorage so I can store the entire content of human knowledge on a postage stamp (with nanosecond seek time and gigabyte transfer speeds, of course)
it's anonymous. I don't want to get sued for downloading the Seinfeld Reunion special. They should use a protocol like herbivore to guarantee anonymity. Then I'd be set!
Actually, I can. I had read about these alleged "journals" that were reporting on antigravity, and I like you was skeptical. So I went to my university's library and browsed through periodicals from 1954 to 1957. Oh, what a pleasure that was. Searching for a few keywords in headlines in books that weighed about 20 lbs each. I found numerous journals such as Interavia as well as a few popular science magazines that were talking about this coming revolution. The big players were in England, but the big American inventor was Thomas Townsend Brown. I even have the articles scanned if you want them!
Well, I guess we're out of luck for cold fusion, so now let's all throw our support to zero point energy! Come on, Tesla believed in it! And he invented the radio and alternating current!
In the 1950's a lot of aerospace journals were talking about antigravity research (specifically, electro-gravitics). They said it was a coming revolution and that by the late 1960's or early 1970's it would be cracked and everyone would be zipping around the planet at 5,000 mph. Then by 1957 all the mentions in the journals ended without conclusions. It just disappeared.
Bottom line: technologies like antigravity and cold fusion will continue to be ignored because their implications on the modern military-industrial complex. Can you imagine a world where anyone can fly anywhere in under an hour for FREE? I would love to see that world, but unfortunately the powers that be don't.
So it goes. I'm going to lick my wounds by driving in my gas guzzling 1989 Dodge Caravan to the nearby pub and drown my sorrows in the bleak future we all face.