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I too have seen them run - at Englishtown but never against each other. No idea where that photo was taken
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1 in 100 million: Rare cotton candy lobster caught off Maine coast |
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"Chase made the decision to exit the Canadian credit card market. As part of that exit, all credit card accounts were closed on or before March 2018. A further business decision has been made to forgive all outstanding balances in order to complete the exit," Maria Martinez, vice president of communications for Chase Card Services, said in a statement. If you have a Chase CC, your balance owed is now zero. |
Wacky visions of 21st century life are revealed in a remarkable set of drawings from 1899
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From the television series Star Trek (1966-1969) Martin Cooper, a mobile device designer at Motorola in the 1970s, made it quite clear that making a gadget inspired by the TV series Star Trek was more than a mere whim, it was the whole idea. The famous Communicator (why bother with a complicated name?) has since become that device we hold in our hands every day. |
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From the novel Tom Swift and his Electric Rifle, published in 1911 Jack Cover, a NASA physicist and creator of the first TASER in the 1970s, was inspired by the writings of Victor Appleton. TASER is, in fact, an acronym for Thomas A. Swift’s Electric Rifle, a reference to the main character who uses the device in a series of over one hundred Victor Appleton novels published between 1910 and 1941. |
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In 1964, The New York Times commissioned Isaac Asimov, author of I, Robot, to imagine technology that would be featured at the World’s Fair 50 years in the future. Asimov envisioned automobiles equipped with “brains,” enabling them to drive themselves. He was only a few years off the mark. Autonomous vehicles, like Waymo, have now become reality. |
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In the TV series Star Trek, the smartly named Replicator created, upon demand, food and various useful objects for the crew of the starship NCC-1701. We're not quite there yet snack-wise, but we're definitely on our way. Back in 1983, Chuck Hull perfected a machine capable of creating objects using stereolithography. 3D printing is now available to anyone who can afford it. |
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From the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953 Ray Bradbury’s novel presents a society in which books are forbidden and technology is used to enslave the population. For example, Bradbury describes radios that broadcast “an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind,” specifically stating that the devices were worn inside the ear. |
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From the novel Robur the Conqueror, published in 1886 The Nautilus was not the only futuristic mode of transportation to emerge from Jules Verne’s imagination. A helicopter also shows up in his writing. The flying machine made a marked impression on one young reader named Igor Sikorsky, inspiring him to create his own version that took to the skies for the first time in 1939. Sikorsky loved to quote Verne, often saying, “anything that one man can imagine, another can make real.” |
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From the novel The War of the Worlds, first published in 1897 in Pearson’s Magazine and Cosmopolitan American scientist Robert H. Goddard, creator of the first liquid-fueled rocket in March 1926, became fascinated by space flight after reading The War of the Worlds. The photo shows one of his rockets ready for a launch test on July 17, 1929. NASA administrator Charles Bolden honored Goddard and Verne's contribution to space exploration in 2016 as preparations for a mission to Mars were underway. |
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From the novel The World Set Free, published in 1914 In his 1914 novel, British author Herbert George Wells imagined that artificial atomic energy would be developed by 1933 and used in a devastating world war from which a peaceful global government would emerge. Hungarian physicist Leó Szilárd read the book in 1932 and resolved to find out how to liberate this atomic energy. The answer, a nuclear chain reaction, came to him suddenly in 1933. The novel also inspired him to advocate for arms control and the peaceful use of nuclear energy following the Second World War. |
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From the novel Looking Backward, published in 1888 Edward Bellamy’s novel takes place in a world where physical money no longer exists. Instead, characters make purchases using cards issued from a central bank. Not a bad hypothesis for 1888. The first universal credit card, Diners Club, actually appeared in 1950. |
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From the novel Ralph 124C 41+: A Romance of the Year 2660, published in 1925 They’ve been appearing in science fiction movies for a long time, but you have to go back to this 1925 novel to find the first appearance of the telephot, a video-telephone capable of making calls over thousands of kilometers. How many video apps do you have on your cell phone right now? |
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Once again, we turn to Star Trek (and not for the last time) for what may be the most obvious invention. No one who has watched the original crew in action could forget its fantastic communications officer, Nyota Uhura. And, what's that we see in her ear? Today, we’d call it a Bluetooth device. |
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From the dystopian novel 1984, published in 1949 Eric Arthur Blair’s (George Orwell’s real name) most popular novel transcends genres and frequently coincides with current events, and for good reason. The surveillance cameras installed throughout the novel's totalitarian world have been a reality since 1942, three years after the book was published. These days, people happily film their most insignificant moments and share them with the world. What would Orwell say? |
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From the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, published in 1968 The astronauts in 2001 use what are today known as tablets to diagnose problems with the Discovery One spaceship, communicate with Earth, and gather data. The first commercially available tablets appeared at the turn of the millennium. |
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From the novel Cyborg, published in 1972, on which the popular television series The Six Million Dollar Man was based Who doesn't remember—without giving away your age—the adventures of ex-pilot Steve Austin, whose legs, arm, and eye had been replaced with mechanical prostheses, making him a half-man, half-machine superhero. In the real world, the first bionic limb to be attached to a human was an arm. Robert Campbell Aird, who lost his arm to muscular cancer, received a new limb at Margaret Rose Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1993. |
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From the novel Neuromancer, published in 1984 The term cyberspace (an amalgam of cybernetics and space) first appeared in William Gibson’s masterpiece. The author described a phenomenon called “consensual hallucination” created by millions of computers across the planet connected by the PAX network. Five years later, Britain’s Tim Berners-Lee gave us the World Wide Web. |
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From the film Star Wars, released in 1977 It’s one of the most iconic scenes from the 1977 Star Wars film. Princess Leia Organa, or at least her hologram, implores Obi-Wan Kenobi to come to her aid. Today, the music industry has taken advantage of this technology to bring deceased artists back to the stage and create unlikely duets (Céline Dion and Elvis). |
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You were warned: here’s another Star Trek invention. The crew’s mission was to explore unknown worlds and civilizations, and a universal translation device was, without doubt, indispensable (imagine how long the episodes would’ve been otherwise). Go forward a few decades into the future, and we find ourselves using Skype software to have conversations in nearly fifty languages. Is this the beginning of the end for language schools? Let's hope not. |
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Digital display As seen in the movie Blade Runner, released in 1982, and featured in the short story “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” By Philip K. Dick, published in 1968 https://i.postimg.cc/J0m1FCZD/fixedw-large-4x-30.jpg |
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So, what’s next? In his novel Air, published in 2004, author Geoff Ryman predicts that by 2020, our brains will be constantly plugged in to the internet. Is this just science fiction? Say hello to Neuralink Corporation, yet another Elon Musk project. Founded in 2016, the company is seeking to create an integrated machine-brain interface to counteract the negative effects of neurological problems. Author and inventor Raymond Kurzweil believes that we will be able to access the web using a nanobot implanted in our neocortex by 2030. Who's up for some super-intelligence? Are you raring to go or running scared? |
We already have smart dust...and various other technologies....
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http://s32.postimg.cc/tm1rdy2rp/s_l1600_1.jpg This is a well known and very rare 1970 Challenger R/T for a couple of reasons: First, it is one of two 440 Magnum engine cars with the N96 Shaker Hood. Second is the V9R Bumblebee Stripe. It's not Rallye Red (FE5) . . . it's Scorch Red (ER6) - the only 1970 Challenger R/T to have that color Bumblebee Stripe. |
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http://s26.postimg.cc/uwkrk1pih/kka.jpg For Chrysler/Dodge's first effort at a "themed" Muscle Car - the Coronet R/T was IMO a winner. It had lots of emblems, came standard with Hood Treatment, Redline Tires, Pin Stripes, Bucket Seats and your choice of Auto or 4 speed. When Chrysler saw that GM was limiting their cars to 400 cubic inches and Ford only had the 390, they made an excellent decision: go with the 440 instead of the 383. The only feature lacking (IMO) were Chrome Exhaust Tips which were standard on the 1968. Dodge sold almost 11,000 1967 Coronet R/Ts. Not bad for a car that listed for $3353. But adding things like a radio, power steering and brakes and Magnum 500 wheels put you in the $3750 price range - expensive for a Muscle Car. The convertible was $263 more. |
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IMO - THE most beautiful wheel ever offered to the public from an auto manufacturer: Pontiac's 8 Lug Wheel. Too bad it never made it onto the GTO. |
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