The Unexpected Rebirth of the Flying Car

[madokie]

http://www.popsci.com/node/49446/?cmpid=enews110410

How the 21st-century military may make one of our wildest and longest-held dreams come true



"This new millennium sucks! It's exactly the same as the old millennium! You know why? No flying cars!" – Lewis Black

Of all the far-out visions for the future provided us by popular culture (indeed, by this very magazine above almost all else), perhaps none is so conspicuously absent today as the flying car. Other sci-fi fantasies – the invisibility cloak, laser weapons, universal translators, 3-D printers – exist to some degree, if only on a lab bench somewhere. But the flying car, once considered the next logical step in personal transit, simply never took flight.

But now, for the first time since the age of Henry Ford, the flying car has a serious patron. And it’s not some eccentric millionaire or overzealous garage inventor. It’s the United States Department of Defense.

[RandomThoughts]

1. I noticed that the DOD has pushed some stories on the news.

I am opposed to such things. And also know they think it is some kind of game.

Although they are starting to figure it out.

[denem]

2. Whats the mpg for city driving?

[FiveGoodMen]

4. I'm afraid it's GPM, not MPG

[Sanity Claws]

3. Another boondoggle to boost the Military-Industrial Complex

[madokie]

5. You gotta love the people who think this shit up

:rofl:

I guess it sells magazines though