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Greetings, friends! I bring to you visions from the year 2000!

>> No.3205965
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Behold! The moving pavement!

>> No.3205967
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The moving house!

>> No.3205972
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What's this? Why, it's televised outside broadcasting! A marvel!

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Thanks for ruining society and morals, hollywood.

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>>3205960
ok sure walking on water, cause walking on land is so passe
>>3205965
um ok, where are we going?
>>3205967
wtf why?

>> No.3205991

>>3205972
so they're watching a live image and listening in with a handset?

whats all that shit connected with? or is that the magic of the year 2000?

>> No.3205993

>>3205972
That shit's pretty good, actually.

>> No.3205999
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And weather machines! The future has it all!

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You even have a variety of flying machines from which to choose!

>> No.3206007

If we made some real predictions about the year say.. 2200, 2300, would they really be less laughable?

I mean really?

>> No.3206008

>>3206005
>flapping wings
Lol. Wasn't this idea debunked a bahzillion years ago?

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I am not sure what this is - it appears to be some sort of locomotive ship plowing through the sea on underwater rails - but it's definitely what they all use in the future!

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>>3206005

>guy smoking a cigar

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Let's not forget the fabulous adventures they have in the year 2000, like these excursions to the deep!

>> No.3206019

>>3206008

What the fuck is with all these little fucks flying and chirping outside my window then ?

>> No.3206020

>>3206007
Not in the slightest.
You know when you read "news" articles about people foretelling the future of technology? It's exactly the same as this shit

>> No.3206022
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Speaking of adventures, let us take one of our magnificent flying airships on a vacation to the North Pole!

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Ah, yes! These airships come in models that either hold two or even four people at once! This is the revolutionary design that can only be experienced in the year 2000!

>> No.3206029

>>3206019
rats?

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Are all those weather machines ruining your day? Fear not! All the cities are roofed with an inexplicable glass pane to keep out the rain!

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>>3205967

>> No.3206044

Why are there no flying houses? I demand flying houses!

>> No.3206045
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"But sir! With all these technological marvels and flying machines, what am I to do when robbers and vandals come to steal my train boat?"

Do not worry, citizen! The glorious police force will have installed X-Ray surveillance optigraphs in every home to make sure criminals can't get away!

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And that concludes our preview of the year 2000! Tune in next time when we have a sneak peek at the year 1926!

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fuck the balloons wtf is that quad wing contraption

I think I want it, I'll be a giant fuckin dragon fly

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Meh, I prefer 1950.

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>>3206057
It's the Hover bike!
http://www.hover-bike.com/index.html

>> No.3206077

>>3206050
That's... might not be such a bad idea actually. An airport in the middle of the city.


Yes, it is a bad idea.

>> No.3206085

>>3206074
This. I always wondered why we still have only one level on cities.

>> No.3206092

>>3206085
Because it's extremely expensive to have more than one?

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>>3206092
Building rely on dirt around them to stay down/ If accident happens like building tumbles shit goes down. Also it would be incredibly inconvenient to take down a building with multiple basement level

>> No.3206105

Why don't we walk on water? It'll piss off Christians and we won't have to walk around lakes/ponds/rivers.

>> No.3206116

>>3206105
Because even the Christians would laugh at us http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-jHcd44YZI&feature=related

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I PREFER THE WARTORN STEAMPUNK FUTURE

>> No.3206125

>>3206074

>trap all vehicles under ground
>turn CO2 into a manageable byproduct
>no more global warming

They had the right idea.

>> No.3206130

>>3206117
>fall off
>instead human smoothie
NOPE

>> No.3206139

>>3206117

That's Dieselpunk bro. And once you bring up jet engines, you're running into Astropunk.

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>>3206075
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuuuu

>> No.3206148

>>3206085

To a limited extent multi-level cities exist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_city)) but engineering that sort of thing is hard.

>> No.3206165

>>3206125

Step two is the hard part. Carbon dioxide is a gas, it's not something you can store terribly easily. Even under the status quo, tunnels require a lot of infrastructure to keep them ventilated. Actually storing the carbon dioxide somewhere would be even worse.

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>>3206139