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Thanks for this, Patty! So many things lately have been making us say, is this for real? Living in the future is so much fun (except for the killer nano bacteria wars...
Subjects: Star Trek, space travel, killer nano bacteria wars
Subjects: space travel, Star Trek, ion propulsion, nuclear, Mars, artificial gravity
I Did 111 MPH 'To Go Have Sex'
Coming soon to the skies above you.
Subjects: helicopter, future flight, military, weapons, machine gun, nano-copter
We peddlin' / They hatin'
Getting from here to there by traveling through the air
Simple personal transportation systems
Automated handling is robotic from end to end
Choreographed nano-copter swarms.
First report I managed to get about the crash, they talked about the dumping of the fuel, the evidence that they had ejected low & late, their injuries and I knew what those guys probably did.
Solowheel promo video from early 2012.
The aim was to use a hubless wheel to create a compact bicycle, with the benefits of a large wheel and belt drive.
Les premiers vrais tests du nano quad d'Ulix, un plaisir à voir et à piloter! [video]
Like flying in a virtual country club.
Refudiating craziness about the Tea Party, Ron Brown, and TWA 800.
This is why we have voice-controlled automobiles today!
Electronic road sign cracked with "Impeach Obama" message
Having many things better to do this scorching Saturday morning, instead I have been reading the overnight.
Subjects: transport, TSA, human right, proper province of government, coffee
The more I've thought about this, the more I'm disgusted with the WEENIES of the Texas senate
By next month, every driver in the U.S. will be required to have a black box in their vehicle
"I'll let you back in after we've cleared the bump, honest."
Good idea: light weight; bad idea: had a rep for freezing up for good after so many miles.
Subjects: transport, automobile, Mustang (Ford), Vega (Chevy), Scout (IH), Pinto (Ford), suburban, Travelall, Astro, Quest (Nissan)
I’ve never ever seen the one for which I traded in that beloved ‘68
Subjects: transport, automobile, Mustang (Ford), Vega (Chevy)
Safe Holiday Flying, America! Is a veritable cult of crotch-gropers and child-molesters is operating by federal mandate in America's airports?
Congo.... A small airliner crashed into a house, killing a British pilot and 19 others after a crocodile smuggled into the aircraft in a sports bag escaped and started a panic.... lone survivor... "The terrified air hostess hurried towards the cockpit, followed by the passengers." The plane was then sent off-balance "despite the desperate efforts of the pilot...." crocodile survived the crash, only to be dispatched with a blow from a machete....
James Winner, who came up with the famous steering-wheel lock that's known simply as "The Club," died earlier this week in a car accident...
It's ironic, in an Alanis Morisset kind of way...
So the manned helicopter crashes but the driverless Audi went through its paces just fine and wasn't involved in the mishap? Hmm. So maybe robots really are taking over the world. They certainly seem to work better sometimes....
BARTLESVILLE — Valter Dellanebbia wants to make the skies friendly and affordable for younger aviation enthusiasts... “We are trying to bring young people back to aviation,” Dellanebbia said as he showed off a Jabiru J-230 LSA model... This is made in Tennessee and the engine is from Australia. We wanted to make aviation affordable. You can buy one of these aircraft for one-tenth the price of others." .. For those looking to buy aircraft, the Jabiru model in Bartlesville carries a price tag of about $100,000. .. If the price is too steep, don’t worry. Dellanebbia has models available from $50,000 on up....
Walking through a park in Chicago a few years back we saw a police officer on a Segway. How cool we thought, until she reached up with both hands to try to adjust her helmet. She ended up on the ground while the Segway took off on its own, luckily only running into a wall in that crowded park. That scene sure came back to me today when I read this story!
The multi-millionaire owner of the Segway company died in a freak accident yesterday when he rode one of the high-tech two-wheel machines off a cliff and into a river...Jimi Heselden, 62, plunged into the River Wharfe while riding around his West Yorkshire estate on a rugged country version of the Segway...He bought the firm last December...Mr Heselden was worth £166million thanks to his defence company Hesco Bastion
Ironically
the world's leading manufacturer of protective barriers...in 1990 pioneered 'blast walls'...initially meant to help prevent land erosion...which replaced sandbags as protection for soldiers on the frontline in Afghanistan and Iraq.Best known for his charity work with Leeds Community Foundation and Help for Heroes, a military charity.He said 'We often get thank-you letters from troops, saying how one of our walls saved their lives when a bomb went off and (Help for Heroes)is our way of showing them how much we appreciate what they do.'
His death comes just a week after he became one of the UK's most generous philanthropists, having given £10million to the Leeds Community Foundation a charity foundation he set up in 2008 which helps disadvantaged youngsters, vulnerable elderly people and health improvement projects in the south and east of the city of Leeds.
The company's latest innovation is the R-House, a new style of temporary housing or shelter that provides protection and comfortable living space for up to eight people in the aftermath of disasters.