What happened to the future?

[DaveB]

Concord used to fly over close to where I live. People would watch it as it flew past in awe. Especially towards the end <sob>.

My gran used to live under the flight path and I remember standing in her garden as a small boy and looking up at it as it flew over.

10 years later we were living in Cornwall and would clearly hear the boom as Concorde went super sonic as she cleared lands end.

[HairyArsedBloke]

Instead of manned Mars missions and moon colonies we got unmanned space probes.

As it should be right now and for sometime to come. There is a lot to be done before the contamination that would be the result of a manned landing.

It's not going anywhere soon.

[expat]

And, if I might be so bold, neither are you hu-mans...

Haven't been higher than 300 miles in almost 40 years...

Sign on for the colony worlds...

A new life awaits you ......

[HairyArsedBloke]

Haven't been higher than 300 miles in almost 40 years...

It's so when you put it like that.

[TimberWolf]

And, if I might be so bold, neither are you hu-mans...

Haven't been higher than 300 miles in almost 40 years...

Sign on for the colony worlds...

This guy went to the moon in 1999 (a sample anyway) and this guy (1 oz) is on his way to Pluto (which he also discovered). Your nemesis' mate Scotty and hundreds of others have gone sub-orbital.

[Mich the Tester]

It's so when you put it like that.

Indeed,

[MPwannadecentincome]

I’ll do the second bit.

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?

Exactly and in the 50s, 60s and 70s it was the build up, the hype the excitement from the newspaper and TV coverage (and programmes like tomorrow's world) to go along with it to build up the nation's pride in its developments and achievements.

That has all gone now - instead we get the daily rag with news on celebrities.

What the nation or even the world needs at this time is a big futuristic project to bring back that excitement and deliver on some of those promises....

oh well all we get instead are bank bailouts.

[Board Game Geek]

I'd commission a massive sea reclamation project.

Sea Wall 1 from John O'Groats to Stavanger Norway.
Sea Wall 2 from Dover to Calais.

Reclaim the land within and join England and Scotland to Europe.

Lots of new land for populations, resource exploitation, etc.
New high speed links in to Europe, reducing the need for some air travel.
Plenty of jobs created.

You could do the same with the North Atlantic and link the USA to Europe.
Again, high speed trains (I mean Mach 2 or faster). Lots of new land, new countries, etc.

Well, you said "big projects" !

[MPwannadecentincome]

I'd commission a massive sea reclamation project.

Ah so maybe moving heathrow to the thames estuary is THE FUTURE!

[BrilloPad]

I'd commission a massive sea reclamation project.

Sea Wall 1 from John O'Groats to Stavanger Norway.
Sea Wall 2 from Dover to Calais.

Reclaim the land within and join England and Scotland to Europe.

Lots of new land for populations, resource exploitation, etc.
New high speed links in to Europe, reducing the need for some air travel.
Plenty of jobs created.

You could do the same with the North Atlantic and link the USA to Europe.
Again, high speed trains (I mean Mach 2 or faster). Lots of new land, new countries, etc.

Well, you said "big projects" !

And have us connected to France?

Is it true that the military have planted explosives in the channel tunnel in case of war with FRance and we need to pull the plug? Or is that just a shaggy dog story.....