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And I would exchange my raincoat and glasses for an invisibility cloak and X-Ray specs. Just because something seems cool, doesn't mean it's easy, or affordable.

The space race was amazing, but incredibly, incredibly expensive. Really, though, the theoretical basis for traveling to the moon existed, it was a matter or reducing it to practice. Goddard, Von Braun had sketched this stuff out in varying levels of detail long before Roddenberry produced his pitch. It was a question of government will, not physics. Perhaps that's where the echo of will over circumstance that you see in the original series comes from? As on rocket jock told me, never underestimate the power of a blank check.

Galaxy travel? Despite being a plot device required for most science fiction movies, faster than light travel by humans really doesn't have much of a rational basis yet. There's some hypothetical concepts that could, perhaps, be worked into a system, maybe, given arbitrarily large amounts of energy, but nothing, nothing like the way the V-2 rocket implied Apollo.

As for flying cars... meh. There's enough carnage out there on the streets right now. Adding a 3rd dimension, higher speed, higher energy requirements, higher kinetic energy in less trained hands than current airline pilots? Thanks, but no thanks. It seems like a nice idea, but I just don't see how it would work out well in practice.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.

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