You see where I'm going with this right?
Exactly, All we need to do is scale the 4 copter drone up to size and add some Self-Driving/Nav software and put People in place of the Camera and VOILA ! It's Jetson Living Time. Most of us can now commute to work and back using endless highways in the sky. No more traffic jams! No need for Roads! No more polluting internal combustion engines and exhaust pipes! No more Rear Enders! Assuming the assholes in DC start building Thorium/Molten Salt reactors all across the country to recharge these beautiful commuter vehicles.
If you didn't know, Amazon is working to have drones deliver packages to customers. It's barely a hop skip and jump to have larger drones deliver people to and from their work and home.
Hey, No Charge.
But ... shouldn’t we start this program by restricting drone saucers to Liberals, who are smarter than everyone else and who can be trusted to operate them safely and within the limits of the law? Afterward, when all the Democrats are dead, we won’t have that much congestion on the regular highways for the rest of us.
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DeleteMustang, Good points. Put the libs who don't know how to drive anyway into these things and leave spacious freeways for the rest of us. The concept has merit. I will take it up with CENTCOM.
DeleteNo thanks, I think I'd go back to walking to work, even if it meant I ad to move.
ReplyDeleteMachinery and automation are turning out to be more of a curse than a blessing.
Human beings need to discipline themselves enough to be able to care for themselves.
The more tasks we turn over to machines and robots the weaker –– and more irrelevant –– we get.
Under breeding and robotization put us on the fast track to EXTINCTION.
FT, I can think of lots of areas where automation is a good thing, e.g. Back in 1980, as a materials manager, I was introduced to how much work a computer could do for me by crunching numbers and suggesting reorder points and order qtys for the items I was tasked with keeping in stock for customers. I never looked back from that. I'd never give that up if I were still doing materials management. Many other management functions fit the bill.
DeleteTo your point, I would join you and argue that the more technologically advanced we get the more brain power we give up - forever. In the end game, humanity loses, so I agree.
Further along, we Will end up with killer AI robots. I just hope they are all located in the Middle East.
I was reading this story just a while ago and I wondered, how much fun would it be to put Democrats into one of these cars inside the Hadron particle accelerator. Hot damn, I’d give up my Season Tickets to the Dallas Cowboys games for a seat in that stadium!
ReplyDeleteMustang, The quad copter is the hot ticket to actually happen. Otherwise, putting democrats into anything that resembles particle acceleration works for me !
DeleteThat would be progressive!
DeleteGood One Ed!
DeleteSeems to me like the Jetsons looked like a LOT more fun back in the day ........"No more traffic jams"???
ReplyDeleteYou don't live in L.A. :-)
Z, You're right I don't live in LA. I line in Cincinnati, the DYSFUNCTIONAL DRIVING CAPITOL OF THE WORLD !!!
DeleteI'm either screaming DRIVE THE CAR or GET OFF THE ROAD - or both. You cannot believe how bad it is here. And that is supported by a recent study that concluded Cincinnati has the worst drivers in America. True That.
Well at least in Cinci you actually do get to drive your car. In LA, you only get to go to the freeway where everyone sits for hours each day. It's kind of like a religious movement where you commune with the windshield gods.
DeleteMustang, but can you use the freeway in LA as a dating service while you're stuck? You sure can't here nor would you want to. OOFta.
DeleteKid, that does sound bad, but Mustang's right...except for "you only get to go to the freeway"....I have become expert at avoiding the freeways at rush hour, which is any time between 6AM and 11 PM!!
DeleteZ, Well Ok then, LA might just be worse. ;-) If it is, you have my sincere sympathy.
DeleteMy gosh, that kid is such a suck up.
DeleteYou guys both in California AND Cincinnati are finally catching up with the New York Metropolitan area. I remember very well –– even back in the NINETEEN-FORTIES! –– joking about the Long Island Expressway. We called it "The World's Longest, Narrowest Parking Lot" back then –– also "The Long Island Distressway." ;-)
Delete"There's nothing new under the sun." Our problem, as a species, is a seeming inability to learn from our past errors. We just keep doing the same old things over and over again –– compounding our mistakes with each new cycle.
Long ago I moved to Southern Delaware –– partly to get away from The Crush of urban living, and partly to take advantage of some good opportunities in real estate. In 1976 Sussex County, Delaware was all open fields and wide clear skies dotted with sleepy old farming communities. Lewes, founded in 1631 by the Dutch was called Zwaanendael till the British took over, was where I settled. Ot was all very quietly historic and a bit run-down-at the heels when I first arrived, and started to buy up real estate among other things.
Unfortunately, the Urban Blight, which I had sight to escape, soon followed me, and by the time I left in 1997 life at the Delaware Beaches more and more closely resembled the frantic, pretentious, status-seeking pursuit of pleasure and profit that had long ago taken over Long Island and the Jersey Shore.
Apparently, there is no escape,because, as Dr. Seuss wisely observed years and years ago:
"NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO –– THERE YOU ARE!"
FT, Sounds that you made some good money on the property. Yes, there is no escaping. We're looking at some wide open barren prior nuclear testing ground property in Nevada for our retirement. Maybe get into rattlesnake tattooing.
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DeleteYou know-I think it can be done. Except for the sound the Jetsons mobile sounds.
ReplyDeleteTS/WS, It can be done. It Must Be Done, It WILL BE DONE !
DeleteWhat was the power for the tail lite or headlamp on our bicycles?
DeleteBolted to the tire rim?
The first Kawasaki motor cycle had one - kick start and off you go, all the electricity you need to power the plugs and lites.
With the 4engine drone 3 person air craft, all we would need is a starting station-not a recharging station.
Start one then flip a switch and start another and another till all 4 were ready for lift off.
Oh- what about landing in a scenic country side for a while for a picnic?
Maybe a hand crank or kick start for one - then the switch for the others?
FT, I think a car batter would do the job. If it will carry 4 people at an average 250 lbs each (As I look around Cincinnati anyway) another 15 lbs is not a problem.
DeleteMeant that last one for TS/WS
DeleteEven in the future George still had Cosmo Spacely for a boss.
ReplyDeleteEd, Yea, but in our future, Cosmo gets a sex change. How about That !
DeleteYuck.
DeleteEd, LBGT-a-phobic ! Just like Me ! heh. Actually I don't care what they do, just don't shove it in my face.
DeleteWhat a nightmare it is already. Airliners approaching JFK had to go around twice I think this past week for drones. There's going to be a real tragedy one day too. Something like The Hudson River landing?
ReplyDeleteIMP, No doubt you're right. These drones are causing problems all over,. Personally, I can't imagine why I'd want one.
DeleteTo find your way out of your back 40 or to spot rats with hooves?
DeleteIMP, Well now there's an idea. We could recon the back 40 here.
DeleteWhy the hell is the time stamp on West Coast time?
ReplyDeleteIMP, It's a google thing?
DeleteSeems to me you ought to be able to select EST no?
Delete"What Difference Does tI make?" };-)>
DeleteIMP, You can't fight city hall and you can't fight Google. It's probably where their data center is and in order to put local time on the stamp you'd have to decode the location from the IP address eh? Then what if someone on the West coast posts at 4:10 and someone on the East replies a minute later at 7:11 ? There'd be no accuracy to the timing of the posts replies. Maybe they should just use Zulu time for the datdbase, then display the time in the person's local time if they can figure it out. I'll email the suckers.
DeleteFT, With Democrats it don't make no damn difference no how, no way. Solution? They can't even figure out what teh problem is ! ;-)
Delete@FT...cause after a few Stoli's I have hard time adding 3 to the stamp? Yes...Zulu time...that would definitely cause chaos.
DeleteFirst, drones, then Star Trek transporters? The latter would be even more convenient -- until a mechanical breakdown and the atoms no longer reassembled on the receiving end, that is.
ReplyDeleteAOW, Transporters will be the Last thing we invent from the Star Trek ideas. Even Holideck will come before transporters.
DeleteZ told me this. ;-)
Kid, I agree that transporters will be the last thing (or the never thing) we invent from Star Trek. OK, I'm channeling Bones right now, but would you want your molecules disassembled and then rely on technology to re-assemble them properly? Is this a government agency doing the job? Pretty much, our cellphones provide the communications, today's medical tech provides the tricorder capabilities, and the 3-D printers are mirroring the replicators. The future is here. What we need is a government we can trust to do the right thing... Oy, god help us.
ReplyDeleteCube. Actually, the future IS here. And it ain't what it was cracked up to be because of the people. That's the problem. Everyone in Star Trek that was from Earth was just as nice as could be, but can you imagine a Transporter in our time with these people ? Some hackers would hack the thing, you'd go in as you and come out the other side as half hildebeast and half brucie jenner.
DeleteCaitlyn Jenner makes a far more credible appearance as a woman than Her Heinous ever has at any time in her wretched, misspent existence –– not that that says much for EITHER of them. ;-)
DeleteFT, and imagine you've never seen either of them right out of the shower.
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