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    Want!

    Fuck me, they reckon moderbikes are dangerous...

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    Cool. Was there not a green baddie flying around on something like that on a spiderman movie. Fantasy to fact.

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    ..if a probing human mind hears of a possibly impossible concept, within some space of time, however long that is, our constant search of knowledge will bring all the bits together and the impossibly possible seems to be feasible...I hope the human race doesn't lose the knowledge of how to light a fire, is one of my major concerns...and if they don't ,I hope they haven't burned all our books as kindling...

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    Quote Originally Posted by ellipsis View Post
    ..if a probing human mind hears of a possibly impossible concept, within some space of time, however long that is, our constant search of knowledge will bring all the bits together and the impossibly possible seems to be feasible...I hope the human race doesn't lose the knowledge of how to light a fire, is one of my major concerns...and if they don't ,I hope they haven't burned all our books as kindling...
    I read something the other day that claimed that knowledge in the sense of an individual's accumulated observations and experiences is probably over-rated as a marketable skill.

    This, because pretty much everything we know is available almost any time, anywhere. Certainly far more than an individual professional, or for that matter a group of professionals can hope to contribute to any knowledge base.

    The contention was that the exploding knowledge availability via the net made the skill in assembling existing ideas into new patterns to make new products, what I'd call innovation was more important.

    An observation that probably didn't need the thesis it came wrapped in to convey something fairly obvious.

    Only. This net-based knowledge isn't all that reliable, is it? Individual fields may be still tolerably unsullied by yer generic angry amateur expert. Some few of them. But it only takes a random google to demonstrate that this great tome of knowledge is hugely corrupted by fuckwits of all sorts, mostly with agendas closely related to the "contributions" they make.

    I'd hate to be designing shit based on what the denizens of stupid World have to say about how such things orta be.
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    while I'm going to have to sit on the fence about its veracity; I'm still going to pull up a deck chair on Oceans, DO WANT lawn
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    Quote Originally Posted by bogan View Post
    while I'm going to have to sit on the fence about its veracity; I'm still going to pull up a deck chair on Oceans, DO WANT lawn
    Assuming, for the moment it's not completely CGI then producing the airflow capable of disturbing the water's surface under the beastie to a degree consistent with enough thrust for powered flight while dangling the thing from a chopper is probably more difficult than just making the fucking thing fly all by itself.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ocean1 View Post
    I read something the other day that claimed that knowledge in the sense of an individual's accumulated observations and experiences is probably over-rated as a marketable skill.

    This, because pretty much everything we know is available almost any time, anywhere. Certainly far more than an individual professional, or for that matter a group of professionals can hope to contribute to any knowledge base.

    The contention was that the exploding knowledge availability via the net made the skill in assembling existing ideas into new patterns to make new products, what I'd call innovation was more important.

    An observation that probably didn't need the thesis it came wrapped in to convey something fairly obvious.

    Only. This net-based knowledge isn't all that reliable, is it? Individual fields may be still tolerably unsullied by yer generic angry amateur expert. Some few of them. But it only takes a random google to demonstrate that this great tome of knowledge is hugely corrupted by fuckwits of all sorts, mostly with agendas closely related to the "contributions" they make.

    I'd hate to be designing shit based on what the denizens of stupid World have to say about how such things orta be.
    You've openly, and repeatedly, admitted that you haven't got a clue what the denizens of stupid world are on about. So you claiming to know how or what they would ask you to design is pretty fuckin stupid, even for you... but, as always, very funny
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    Quote Originally Posted by mashman View Post
    You've openly, and repeatedly, admitted that you haven't got a clue what the denizens of stupid world are on about. So you claiming to know how or what they would ask you to design is pretty fuckin stupid, even for you... but, as always, very funny
    No, no, what I've openly and repeatedly admitted is that the denizens of Stupid World don't have a clue what THEY'RE on about.

    But I can see how that would confuse you.

    Fuck, counting beyond ten confuses you.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ocean1 View Post
    No, no, what I've openly and repeatedly admitted is that the denizens of Stupid World don't have a clue what THEY'RE on about.

    But I can see how that would confuse you.

    Fuck, counting beyond ten confuses you.
    You may wanna mention to the Doc that you're having memory issues... then again, could just be ego.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ocean1 View Post
    Assuming, for the moment it's not completely CGI then producing the airflow capable of disturbing the water's surface under the beastie to a degree consistent with enough thrust for powered flight while dangling the thing from a chopper is probably more difficult than just making the fucking thing fly all by itself.
    Yeh, but CGI of the water effect wouldn't be too difficult.

    What would sell it (the video, perhaps not the product) would be some epic get offs, cos you know that sort of design is going to be precarious as fuck...
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    The morning commute could be fun!

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    It's a good thing they didn't show a take-off or landing, otherwise it would have fooled people into thinking it was real...

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    Quote Originally Posted by bogan View Post
    Yeh, but CGI of the water effect wouldn't be too difficult...
    That's true, and in one pass the disturbance looked to lag behind the thing more than was quite right.

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    The morning commute could be fun!
    Can you imagine the trip down the gorge in the morning accompanied by enough of those to represent current car traffic?

    Quote Originally Posted by 5ive View Post
    It's a good thing they didn't show a take-off or landing, otherwise it would have fooled people into thinking it was real...
    The "landing" did look well contrived, didn't it?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ocean1 View Post

    I'd hate to be designing shit based on what the denizens of stupid World have to say about how such things orta be.
    I reckon there's a reality TV show in there...Along the lines of Mythbusters.

    Take an idea aired on the net and purported to work, team of fabricators build it, celebrity tests it....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grumph View Post
    I reckon there's a reality TV show in there...Along the lines of Mythbusters.

    Take an idea aired on the net and purported to work, team of fabricators build it, celebrity tests it....
    Bags I get to choose celebrities.

    Seriously, though, without insane people we'd not have 100hp mobility scooters. So some of them are worth keeping.
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