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2010, The Odyssee continues

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Lionheart

SOH-CM-2014
Hey all,

Im just watching the movie 2010, the sequel movie to 2001 a Space Odyssee. What a brilliant movie.

Here we are flying FS, Maules, Cessna's, etc. Wouldnt it cool to have a sim with such equal power that could take us to Mars, Io, Europa, etc...?

Here we are, supposed to have flying cars by now, gravity flight, etc.. And we do not even have a proper space sim... arrgh.

Bill

EDIT: My oops. I thought I was posting in the Newshawks. If a Moderator could move this thread there, I would be greatful.
 
40 years ago we turned our back on space. JFK's dream had got us to the Moon, but Camelot was gone... and with it the dream which might have taken us further.

The dream has another chance now, SpaceShip Two will open the door to civilian spaceflight. On the horizon, a Canadian research team may be as close as 5-10 years from building a Beanstalk, the near legendary 'space elevator' which will reduce the cost of lofting a cargo to space so cheap that space becomes truly open.

Bill, we have Orbitor for the sim... We may yet live to see the dream come true in real life.
 
Thats good news SF.

I didnt know someone was actually working on the space elevator. It would indeed be a huge leap into space.


Bill
 
LH,
You got to work on your spelling! The non-English SOH'ers are better spellers....:wavey:
Anyways, 2010 was a cool movie, as was the book 3010, or was it 3001?
They find Poole's body still floating in space...
 
Never liked the 2001 sequels (movies or books), they ruined the mythical story by over-explaining it.

But if you like Arthur C. Clarke I can highly recommend Rendezvous With Rama. My all time favorite sci-fi story. But be careful not to read the sequels of that book, same sin of over-explaining again.
 
I reckon us humans should forget about mars, europa etc. What we really need is warp speed across the universe...I'm dreaming again. That 2010 sequel I liked at the start, surrounded in mystery....but then they did ruin it for me with the big meaning thing towards the end.
 
bushpilot said:
Never liked the 2001 sequels (movies or books), they ruined the mythical story by over-explaining it.

But if you like Arthur C. Clarke I can highly recommend Rendezvous With Rama. My all time favorite sci-fi story. But be careful not to read the sequels of that book, same sin of over-explaining again.
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i loved that series, but could never find the final book:angryfir:
 
demorier said:
I reckon us humans should forget about mars, europa etc. What we really need is warp speed across the universe...I'm dreaming again.
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I totally agree. it would be pretty cool to run out to other star systems and check out totally different worlds, like that new planet they discovered with Hubble that is similar to Earth and has two other gas giants in its orbit, smaller sun.



Piglet,

You makin phun of my spellin? Don be pickin on me naw or I'll quoat Stiz.

:d
 
Sad, isnt it, that this was to be the future, 2000 and 2010. Seems normal. Our only electric car was cancelled by gm. gm goes out of business. No flying cars. No moon base. No magnetic flight airforce vehicles. No Mars mission yet.....

arrgh..
 
im working on a project that's suppose to take place in 2050....i dont see much changes from today :p

the only things i see are more pollution, more animals/plants extinct, over-population, crime, wars, etc.

Cars, planes, etc will probably still be similar to what we use today. It's the little things that might change. For example: Telegram -> Newspaper -> b/w Television -> color Television -> Plasma/LCD TV -> Digital TV -> Fully Internet HD Streamed TV -> Direct brain feed?

the basic human needs remain simple....it's how we obtain that need which changes.

-feng
 
There will be massive changes in the next 40 years. We are still in the early days of the Information Age, we have yet to see most of the effects. Many businesses will finally realize that they can save money by not having workers onsite, it might even be possible to 'work' hundreds or thousands of miles from home... without leaving your house. The average city has a downtown core just filled with office workers working on computers... folks that can work from anywhere. Think of all the traffic that can be avoided, all the polution... and all the savings from reduced traffic, reduced facility costs.

Telepresence will make major changes, most we can't even yet fathom.
 
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