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LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
Fri Jan 2, 2015, 01:49 PM Jan 2015

Back to the Future Poll: Which will happen first - Flying Cars or Cubs win the World Series

It's 2015 and as everyone is well aware this is where Michael J. Fox flew to in the future where there were Flying Cars and the Chicago Cubs in the World Series (I think they won it - never saw the whole movie). As of January 1st 2015 neither of these things have technically happened.

So which, my gentle dear fans of the DU, do you think will actually


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People will own flying cars
1 (33%)
The Chicago Cubs will win the World Series
2 (67%)
Neither - Armageddon will happen before either of these things become reality
0 (0%)
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Back to the Future Poll: Which will happen first - Flying Cars or Cubs win the World Series (Original Post) LynneSin Jan 2015 OP
Based on who is allowed to own guns here, the flying car thing is a really bad idea. nt onehandle Jan 2015 #1
I saw an article on this the other day NewJeffCT Jan 2015 #2
Um..... LynneSin Jan 2015 #3
I want a flying car, but I'd like to see the Cubs win for once shenmue Jan 2015 #4
use the Google and onethatcares Jan 2015 #9
No one wants flying carS jmowreader Jan 2015 #5
Those arguments assume that "a flying car" would be exactly the same as a regular car, but flying. Warren DeMontague Jan 2015 #12
Chicago Cubs IrishEyes Jan 2015 #6
now that the cubs are owned by a rich republican asshole mopinko Jan 2015 #7
Flying cars? Oh hell no. I don't want those things falling on me. hunter Jan 2015 #8
The Cubs will NEVER win the world series. Warren DeMontague Jan 2015 #10
They'd need the Marlins to jump to the AL JonLP24 Jan 2015 #11
Flying pigs before either one of those. Tobin S. Jan 2015 #13
Flying car made in 1949 Major Nikon Jan 2015 #14
Cubs will win world series first. Vs somebody-- I suspect Miami will be under water by then, though. Gidney N Cloyd Jan 2015 #15

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
3. Um.....
Fri Jan 2, 2015, 02:52 PM
Jan 2015
Terrafugia unveiled a prototype several months ago, the Aeromobil 3.0, which they say could do more than 400 miles on one trip. But these are not currently on sale, and air traffic control plans have not been drafted.


It's like saying the Cubs have been to the playoffs - they still haven't won the World Series yet.

shenmue

(38,501 posts)
4. I want a flying car, but I'd like to see the Cubs win for once
Fri Jan 2, 2015, 02:53 PM
Jan 2015

I'm not even a fan of theirs, but I feel bad for them.

onethatcares

(16,133 posts)
9. use the Google and
Sat Jan 3, 2015, 07:10 AM
Jan 2015

check out Steve Goodman and a "dying Cub Fans last request".

It should bring a smile to your face, but not a pennant to Chicago though.

jmowreader

(50,451 posts)
5. No one wants flying carS
Fri Jan 2, 2015, 03:12 PM
Jan 2015

They want A flying car, which belongs to them. They don't want you to have one.

I don't think I want one...if one of the local NDMFs runs into me in a land car, there is a possibility of injury. If the same person runs into me in a flying car, there is a near-certainty of death.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
12. Those arguments assume that "a flying car" would be exactly the same as a regular car, but flying.
Sat Jan 3, 2015, 08:16 AM
Jan 2015

I seriously doubt the FAA is ever going to just let 200 million people take off and zip around the sky will-nilly.

Odds are that the flying car, if it ever comes about, will do most of the flying itself. The algorithms and software to prevent land cars from crashing into each other- when computer driven- already exist.

I am reasonably certain that if affordable "flying cars" come along, they will be part of a system that is reasonably safe. Probably way safer than cars on the freeway driven by people.

mopinko

(69,806 posts)
7. now that the cubs are owned by a rich republican asshole
Sat Jan 3, 2015, 12:10 AM
Jan 2015

i suppose they will prolly finally win one.
i'm votin for flying cars, anyway, cuz i am a sox fan.

hunter

(38,264 posts)
8. Flying cars? Oh hell no. I don't want those things falling on me.
Sat Jan 3, 2015, 01:35 AM
Jan 2015

My sister once lived alongside a busy highway, the highway up on a steep hill above her house.

One night she heard a tremendous crash and jumped out of bed to find a wrecked car and horribly injured people in her front yard.

Her story gives me nightmares and I wasn't even there.



Now imagine that same sort of thing happening anywhere and everywhere with the cars and bodies falling at greater speeds from even greater heights...

No, no, no!

I've encountered plenty of idiot drivers on the road, I don't want those same idiot drivers in the sky.

I'll go with the Cubs winning.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
10. The Cubs will NEVER win the world series.
Sat Jan 3, 2015, 08:03 AM
Jan 2015

Trust me on this.

Edited to add, i would love to SEE the cubs win the world series. But as an ex-Chicagoan I am a realist on such matters.

I'd also love to see flying cars. Fuck it, I'd like to take a flying car to an antigravity parking lot in Wrigleyville to see the cubs win the world series, then afterwards I could watch a titanium exoskeleton robot band cover Grateful Dead tunes in one of the nearby holo-bars, where the air would be thick with the smoke of space weed.

Oh, I'm sure someone here can find all sorts of profound sociopolitical reasons to complain about the idea of world champeen cubs or the flying cars or the antigravity or the space weed or terminator jam band. But Not me! Fuck 'em.

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