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"David Nebenzahl" wrote in message ... So what else can you tell us about this phenomonon? I'm all ears. Obviously he is thinking about 75 MPH Segway type unicycles http://www.popsci.com/popsci/auto/ar...489828,00.html With sophisticated electronics vehicles will need only 4 ft on a side of space on the road. That means at 75 MPH about 300,000 vehicles per hour per lane vs. the present 2200 with cars. It will be so efficient that all cars, trains, and busses will obviously have to be banned from all cities and replaced with high powered Segway unicycles :-) |
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On 9/24/2003 9:22 PM Jack May spake thus:
"David Nebenzahl" wrote in message ... So what else can you tell us about this phenomonon? I'm all ears. Obviously he is thinking about 75 MPH Segway type unicycles http://www.popsci.com/popsci/auto/ar...489828,00.html With sophisticated electronics vehicles will need only 4 ft on a side of space on the road. That means at 75 MPH about 300,000 vehicles per hour per lane vs. the present 2200 with cars. It will be so efficient that all cars, trains, and busses will obviously have to be banned from all cities and replaced with high powered Segway unicycles :-) No, forget that--it's time to implement the Rolling Roads! Old farts who used to listen to old radio shows will know what I'm talking about. ("The Roads Must Roll") -- It's fun to demonize the neo-cons and rejoice in their discomfiture, but don't make the mistake of thinking US foreign policy was set by Norman Podhoretz or William Kristol. They're the clowns capering about in front of the donkey and the elephant. The donkey says the UN should clean up after them, and the elephant now says the donkey may have a point. Somebody has come out with a dustpan and broom. - Alexander Cockburn, _CounterPunch_ (http://www.counterpunch.org), 9/17/03 |
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Miguel Cruz wrote: David Nebenzahl wrote: No, forget that--it's time to implement the Rolling Roads! Old farts who used to listen to old radio shows will know what I'm talking about. ("The Roads Must Roll") I remember reading that story in a scifi anthology when I was a kid in school. How was it done for radio? Easier on radio than TV - all they needed were suggestive sound effects, no visuals. People were more accustomed to using their imaginations, in those days - they didn't have to have it made visible for them. (Although that doesn't mean I didn't prefer seeing it all on Star Wars, Star Trek and Babylon Five, etc.) miguel -- Hit The Road! Photos and tales from around the world: http://travel.u.nu Site remodeled 10-Sept-2003: Hundreds of new photos, easier navigation. |
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David Nebenzahl wrote:
No, forget that--it's time to implement the Rolling Roads! Old farts who used to listen to old radio shows will know what I'm talking about. ("The Roads Must Roll") I remember reading that story in a scifi anthology when I was a kid in school. How was it done for radio? miguel -- Hit The Road! Photos and tales from around the world: http://travel.u.nu Site remodeled 10-Sept-2003: Hundreds of new photos, easier navigation. |
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David Nebenzahl wrote:
On 9/24/2003 9:22 PM Jack May spake thus: "David Nebenzahl" wrote in message ... So what else can you tell us about this phenomonon? I'm all ears. Obviously he is thinking about 75 MPH Segway type unicycles http://www.popsci.com/popsci/auto/ar...489828,00.html With sophisticated electronics vehicles will need only 4 ft on a side of space on the road. That means at 75 MPH about 300,000 vehicles per hour per lane vs. the present 2200 with cars. It will be so efficient that all cars, trains, and busses will obviously have to be banned from all cities and replaced with high powered Segway unicycles :-) No, forget that--it's time to implement the Rolling Roads! Old farts who used to listen to old radio shows will know what I'm talking about. ("The Roads Must Roll") I've forgotten. DO we first need massive solar power or hugh nukes which threaten to blow up the world if the controllers get a bit weird? FFM |
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David Nebenzahl writes:
On 9/24/2003 9:22 PM Jack May spake thus: No, forget that--it's time to implement the Rolling Roads! Old farts who used to listen to old radio shows will know what I'm talking about. ("The Roads Must Roll") Robert Anson Heinlein wrote the story 'The Roads Must Roll'. In the 1930's. Quite interesting, actually. Currently available in his 'Past through Tomorrow' collection of shorts. scott |
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"Frank F. Matthews" wrote:
David Nebenzahl wrote: No, forget that--it's time to implement the Rolling Roads! Old farts who used to listen to old radio shows will know what I'm talking about. ("The Roads Must Roll") I've forgotten. DO we first need massive solar power or hugh nukes which threaten to blow up the world if the controllers get a bit weird? In the original story (by Robert Heinlein) the roads used cheap "sunpower screens" with about 80% efficiency. Silas Warner |
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David Nebenzahl wrote:
No, forget that--it's time to implement the Rolling Roads! Old farts who used to listen to old radio shows will know what I'm talking about. ("The Roads Must Roll") "Frank F. Matthews" wrote: I've forgotten. DO we first need massive solar power or hugh nukes which threaten to blow up the world if the controllers get a bit weird? Silas Warner wrote: In the original story (by Robert Heinlein) the roads used cheap "sunpower screens" with about 80% efficiency. Silas Warner Thanks Silas. I think I was mixing in a memory from the going to the moon series where a huge atomic power plant was transferred to orbit. FFM |
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"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message ... Miguel Cruz wrote: David Nebenzahl wrote: No, forget that--it's time to implement the Rolling Roads! Old farts who used to listen to old radio shows will know what I'm talking about. ("The Roads Must Roll") I remember reading that story in a scifi anthology when I was a kid in school. How was it done for radio? Easier on radio than TV - all they needed were suggestive sound effects, no visuals. People were more accustomed to using their imaginations, in those days - they didn't have to have it made visible for them. (Although that doesn't mean I didn't prefer seeing it all on Star Wars, Star Trek and Babylon Five, etc.) miguel -- Hit The Road! Photos and tales from around the world: http://travel.u.nu Site remodeled 10-Sept-2003: Hundreds of new photos, easier navigation. He meant: carefree......... |
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