Voyager spacecraft, 1977

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four4me — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:09:46 GMT

<br />They have no intention to jump 20 - 50 years ahead of the program a make some out of this world vehicle except as a concept car. Ever vehicle brought to the drawing board is in line of succession to the next vehicle and so on. If you ever get a chance to see the linage of the Fords, Chevy, and Chrysler products. You'll see that every vehicle has similarities from year to year. This is more about tooling than anything else to alter a vehicles component structure takes billions of dollars to... [ More ]

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jarasan — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:08:33 GMT

<br />Do you realize if the car companies didn't have to spend so much on bennies and compliance for the "non-design" union side of "their" businesses, the MONEY they could dedicate to the R&D side? We would have antigravity vehicles like the Jetsons.

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Curious2k3 — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:24:13 GMT

No doubt. I vote you and I for President and V.P. My best answer...sheeple. They have us right where they want us. Under CONTROL.

Original Blog Entry: Voyager spacecraft, 1977

time*treat — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:11:40 GMT

No gas stations or mechanics in space too far from the sun to use solar power. Running on nuclear.

Designed to last ~12 years, still functioning after 30+ years.

Controlled by three CPUs, running as 6.4 MHZ (mega-, not giga-): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_1802

Considering the advances we've made since 1977...

... Detroit should be building cars that are better than anything else available, instead of getting their lunch eaten by foreign car makers.

... These things are still running on their original fuel source and we're still importing (oil) energy ... why?

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