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What happened to the future?
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The thing with science fiction these days it that it's pretty much done. Hard, techy, sci-fi has pretty much reached the limits now.
Stephen Baxter has done the whole near future, space/time/technology genre as far as it will go.
Ian M. Banks has pretty much covered far future civilisation and technology in his Culture books.
Most of what everyone else has written is so close top being achieved it is in the mainstream conciousness - Fusion power, Anti-Gravity, Energy weapons, Artificial Intelligence etc. we are pretty much within a generation of those things becoming reality."Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.Comment
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Originally posted by DaveB View Post...
Ian M. Banks has pretty much covered far future civilisation and technology in his Culture books.
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Where are we going? And what’s with this hand basket?Comment
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostConcord was a great exercise in expensive supersonic flight, but wasn't great aerodynamically. The wings were too broad for efficient hight speed flight, but were good for landing on short runways. It needed longer runways and smaller wings to compete on economy.
As if credit-default-derivative-obligation-whatever-the-f**k-they-ares have got us anywhere.And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostThe fact that it wasn't perfect is precisely the reason to continue working on that kind of thing.
As if credit-default-derivative-obligation-whatever-the-f**k-they-ares have got us anywhere.Comment
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostI think the physics of flight is fairly well understood. Short hop (5000 miles) flights are probably the most efficient (long enough to take advantage of the upper atmosphere and short enough not to be using excess fuel to carry fuel). Interestingly enough flight efficiency isn't a function of weight or speed, given an efficient wing loading and design, just mass to fuel ratio. A moth could fly as far as a 747 with the same fuel ratio (at 46% fuel, each could fly 20,000 km).And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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There's no exciting future for two reasons. Firstly, no one will finance it because they can't make a quick buck and secondly, no one wants to fill out the risk assessment for it...Older and ...well, just older!!Comment
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Originally posted by ratewhore View PostThere's no exciting future for two reasons. Firstly, no one will finance it because they can't make a quick buck and secondly, no one wants to fill out the risk assessment for it...
Risk of accidents; Quite High
Consequence for participants; Death
Result; sod that, let’s make it fly
Do you think Christopher Columbus, Donald Campbell and Neil Armstrong wasted their lives on elf and safety and risk assessments?And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post747s are impressively big but boring. Nobody ever dropped the ball at a test match and looked up to gaze at a 747.Comment
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