/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3959165
The only thing that would make commercial flying cars viable is an energy source that is at least a few times as energy dense as coal, and something that doesn't have stupid unfolding wings and can fly just simply by propulsion. That or embedding superconductors in the crust. And don't give me the shit OH THEY SAID WE'D HAVE FLYING CARS AND WE DON'T. Star Trek had communicators and iPads that look far less sophisticated as the shit we have now, and their stuff was set in the 23rd century or some crap.

Last 20 years? Thousands of new medicines, gene therapy, dozens of vaccines, cloth weaves that are waterproof so that when you spill your beer you don't get wet, novel methods of synthesizing all sorts of stuff, plastics that are stronger than steel, new semiconductors.... Then there are advances in cosmetics, and in automobiles, aeronautics, and power generation (clean coal tech, nuclear materials tech). Major advances in smelting and refining procedures. Mathematical methods for brewing alcohols more efficiently and with better flavours. Sports gear is not even comparable. Modern paper lasts much longer, looks much better, and is much cheaper... then there is e-ink technology. DVDs. The compressor in your refrigerator uses a completely different design. So does your hot water tank.

20 years ago, we had eight channels on TV. Eight. We'd just upgraded to cable, giving us four extra channels. Buying shelves for your house was a major expense... you couldn't just drop $10 at IKEA. Our car was a monstrous hunk of steel that got boiling hot inside in the summer, and had frost on the inside all winter.

You just take all this stuff for granted. Almost everything you wear, eat, sleep on, and masturbate to has been revolutionized in the last 20 years.

And now you say we're going to stop because of a shortsighted president and his failing country? Not going to happen.

Pointless fact: the Texas state capitol building is actually taller than the U.S. capitol.

Anyways, my question is: why do you want to study Gov/PoliSci in America? It'll mostly be about U.S. government, which you probably have very little knowledge of being from Britain. That might make it more difficult for you.
However, if you do have the motivation, good study-skills, and perseverance to make it through law school after that, then you can bank some mad dough, yo.

ITT:
industries which will explode in the next 50 years.

I'll start.

>recycling

maybe... just maybe.... money isn't everything.

It's so big.