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   Flying Incendiaries

   

   dorpus, Jun 13th, 2005 @ 2:21am

   
   

   Now 16-year-olds can drop Molotov cocktails on, say, the dry hills of California, and watch hundreds of million-dollar homes get roasted.
   
   

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   Problem with flying machines

   

   thecaptain, Jun 13th, 2005 @ 4:58am

   
   

   Coming from my morning commute, I sincerely think that flying cars are a bad idea.
   
   Most of the morons on the road can barely handle 2 dimensional navigation. I shudder to think what they'd do with 3.

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   Re: Problem with flying machines

   

   Bob Dole, Jun 13th, 2005 @ 6:11am

   
   

   I don't see how the flying car, if it's the one in the picture, can drive on the roads. It has no front license plate, no headlights, and apparently no tail lights. That's assuming it can get away with driving without a front bumper, etc. I think this is bogus.

   The graphic is kinda interesting -- most of the guys who commute by air really don't save that much time unless it's a 160+ mile commute.

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   Re: Problem with flying machines

   

   dorpus, Jun 13th, 2005 @ 6:14am

   
   

   Maybe it could become street-legal in poor countries. Then we'd have illegal Mexican immigrants raining from the sky.
   

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   Mobile Phones

   

   data64, Jun 13th, 2005 @ 7:32am

   
   

   So, are we allowed to use mobile phones, while we are in one of these contraptions ?

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   Re: Problem with flying machines

   

   Mike (profile), Jun 13th, 2005 @ 8:53am

   
   

   I don't see how the flying car, if it's the one in the picture, can drive on the roads.
   
   I believe the picture is of a generic gyroplane, not the one in question...

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   No Subject Given

   

   Anonymous, Jun 13th, 2005 @ 3:04pm

   
   

   The tech for "flying cars" has existed since Molt Taylor in the 1950s. And, so has the resistance from our goverment agency that's formally chartered to "Promote and regulate civil aviation".
   
   To be more blunt: The FAA has always resisted anything that would take the number of light aircraft up by a step function. In fact, they once told Molt that they would do anything necessary to stop it...
   
   

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   Re: Problem with flying machines

   

   Dresk, Jun 15th, 2005 @ 8:31pm

   
   

   Mexicans are nice people. Perhaps the one crossing the borders are troublemakers and that's why you americans hate them? I don't know... maybe it's like with colombians here (Venezuela). I've never been in Colombia, but my friends say it's pretty and the people are awesome. But all my experiences with colombians here are bad (ranging from crooks to thieves). Colombian girls are stunning, though.

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   flying car

   

   Arnold Walker, Sep 3rd, 2007 @ 3:40pm

   
   

   If it was in Texas and made by Butterfly LLC ...
   Him and about twenty other customer vehicles did.
   Techno matter...in 40 of the 50 states anything with
   three wheel up 65ft long X 13.5 ft high X 9ft wide is a motorcycle.
   The first flying car to be built in 1935 was Pitcairn and
   is on display in Washington DC's aviation musuem.The government was rationing steel and other materials and didn't think his prototype was worth pursuing in production.
   You can see Larry Neal and Carter on Utube.

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    cars

    

    yaro, Nov 13th, 2007 @ 9:19pm

    
    

    i think flying cars are real and when they will be in use it will be realy cool

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    flying car

    

    jessica, Feb 14th, 2008 @ 11:55am

    
    

    yeaa flying car baby

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    Re: Flying Incendiaries

    

    a concerned 17 year old..., Apr 24th, 2009 @ 10:55am

    
    

    I find that comment offensive... you seem to imply that we are all reckless and careless, and that we enjoy burning expensive homes... I find a charcoal forge and a chunk of steel much more to my liking, but that's beside the point... where do adults get off assuming that us teenage guys just want to hurt people and break things? -.-
    
    same mistake the insurance companies made when they charge us twice as much as our female counterparts...

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