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    Fan-Made Replicas of Science Fiction's Favorite Land Vehicles

    In The Future, Your Car Will Know All About You

    Create A New, Greener Car - And Become A Reality TV Star In The Process!

    Felicia Day's Psychotic Fairy Sings About Doing It Dragon Style

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    Image of Janglesatwest Janglesatwest
    11/06/09

    In reply to Fan-Made Replicas of Science Fiction's Favorite Land Vehicles
    OMG, there is something else to put on my list of things to buy before I die: Kaneda's bike. Akira was one of the first animes I saw and I immediatly wanted that bike. #scienceficitonvehicles
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/06/09

    In reply to Fan-Made Replicas of Science Fiction's Favorite Land Vehicles
    I've seen a couple Ectos and one DeLorean in my time.

    The street legal landspeeder is awesome work. #scienceficitonvehicles
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    Image of gunluva is prepared to drop. gunluva is prepared to drop.
    11/06/09

    In reply to Fan-Made Replicas of Science Fiction's Favorite Land Vehicles
    COME ON

    [pixelatedgeek.com] #scienceficitonvehicles
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    Image of bonniegrrl bonniegrrl
    11/06/09

    In reply to Fan-Made Replicas of Science Fiction's Favorite Land Vehicles

    R2-D2 is the ultimate co-pilot. #scienceficitonvehicles
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    Image of SJ_Edwards SJ_Edwards
    11/06/09


    @bonniegrrl: Is it odd, that as soon as I saw this, the sound effect of Fred's feet dropping through the floor and propelling The Flintstones car, went off in my head? .......followed by....... Ronald Reagan's scream from 'King's Row', "Where's the rest of me?"........ Huey, Dewey and *sniff* Louie from Silent Running......trash compactor WALL-E......Soldier's Arcadia 234 trash planet......the trash compactor room in Star Wars being turned of by R2-D2...... back to.....R2-D2 being 'dropped' into the X-Wing......the Borg Queen's suspended torso being dropped into her body......Cameron Terminator's Venus De Meccano (that's 'Erector Set', in 'the land of the round door knobs') suspended torso ......HOLDS.....HEAD.....IN.....HANDS..........TOO.....MUCH.....MEDIA...... hear Soylent Green's Sol Roth say "How did we come to this?".......Chuck Heston scream [datacore.sciflicks.com] ......start to see giant dirigibles from the alt-Ray-Gun-future of William Gibson's The Gernsback Continuum......cartoon birds circle head, like Eddie Valiant in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?.....deranged hippie Doolittle, from Dark Star, tries to talk down using phenomonology [www2.english.uiuc.edu] but to no avail..... [www2.english.uiuc.edu] ..... and as usual ..... (see picture^). #scienceficitonvehicles
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    Image of SJ_Edwards SJ_Edwards
    11/06/09

    @SJ_Edwards:
    "You smell that?
    Do you smell that?
    Warthog, son.
    Nothing else in the world smells like that.
    I love the smell of Warthog in the morning.
    Smells like ... Halo 3." - [www.bungie.net] .
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    Image of SJ_Edwards SJ_Edwards
    11/06/09


    @SJ_Edwards: #scienceficitonvehicles
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    Image of SJ_Edwards SJ_Edwards
    03:41 AM

    @bonniegrrl: Odd is my co-pilot :) #scienceficitonvehicles
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    Image of SundaySunday SundaySunday
    11/06/09

    In reply to Fan-Made Replicas of Science Fiction's Favorite Land Vehicles
    While not a replica per se, I like the H-Wing, the Star Wars Honda del Sol with its own astromech out back.

    [swongled.com] #scienceficitonvehicles
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    11/01/09

    In reply to In The Future, Your Car Will Know All About You
    Well, that's simple - pull out the screen and controller board, hack it to do something useful, and install an ashtray in the gaping hole in the dash. #aida
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    11/01/09

    In reply to In The Future, Your Car Will Know All About You
    I predict this will be at least as popular as that stupid Windows paperclip-thing.

    Except in Japan, where everyone will want two.
    -Kle. #aida
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    Image of smokyburnout smokyburnout
    10/31/09

    In reply to In The Future, Your Car Will Know All About You
    they're working with Audi... so, it'll look like this in 5 years?
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    Image of smokyburnout smokyburnout
    10/31/09


    @smokyburnout: this picture should be part of that post. #aida
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    11/01/09

    @smokyburnout:
    There's not enough oil leaking in that picture.
    -Kle. #aida
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10/31/09

    In reply to In The Future, Your Car Will Know All About You
    Why not just get married? #aida
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    Image of geesejuggler geesejuggler
    10/31/09

    In reply to In The Future, Your Car Will Know All About You
    Speaking as a slight luddite, I think this is going way too far. When the robot aliens come and shut down our technology, those cars will help no one. #aida
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    Image of Delphinus100 Delphinus100
    11/01/09

    @geesejuggler: In that scenario, where would we drive to, anyway? The also-dead gas pump or ATM, that already know me and my credit history way too well? #aida
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    Image of geesejuggler geesejuggler
    11/02/09

    @Delphinus100: No, we'll have suped up cars from the 1950s. #aida
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    Image of redqueenmeg redqueenmeg
    10/31/09

    In reply to In The Future, Your Car Will Know All About You
    Astonishingly my in-rearview-mirror compass and map book have never given me any attitude. Or told me to turn into a canal or building. #aida
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    10/31/09

    @redqueenmeg: But on the other hand, you didn't get the privilege of paying 18000 extra dollars for the skin-conductivity sensors, the laser mood projector, the infrared heat mood sensor.... So obviously you're low class. #aida
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    Image of redqueenmeg redqueenmeg
    10/31/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Oh, I know I am, but I always have been. I'm used to it. #aida
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    Image of Jesse Astle Jesse Astle
    10/31/09

    @redqueenmeg: When I was driving with my sister I swear the GPS got uppity whenever she didn't follow its instructions. #aida
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    10/31/09

    @redqueenmeg: Map-reading FTW! #aida
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    Image of redqueenmeg redqueenmeg
    11/01/09

    @Jesse Astle: When I was in Toronto the thing told me to "merge onto the collector." I was like EH? #aida
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    11/01/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Seriously. Oh, but what if I can't get a connection to my map's satellite uplink? heh. #aida
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    11/01/09

    @redqueenmeg: That's why, after the apocalypse of whatever sort, those of us who can read maps will be protected and revered. We shall lead the GPS-forsaken. #aida
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    Image of redqueenmeg redqueenmeg
    11/01/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: I dunno, after working in tech support for years I think my patience will be really worn thin by then. I think I may just leave any non-map-readers to their own devices. #aida
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/02/09

    @redqueenmeg: Hm... I see your point. Well, maybe we'll keep some young strong men around for our amusement and the lifting of heavy objects. #aida
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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    10/31/09

    In reply to In The Future, Your Car Will Know All About You
    Police officer "So what do you think made you crash into the tree?"

    Driver "My GPS thought it would make me less tense if it RickRolled me" #aida
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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    09/21/09

    In reply to Create A New, Greener Car - And Become A Reality TV Star In The Process!
    @J_Frank_Parnell: BattleBots was sweet, but I stopped making it a point to watch it long before it was actually taken off the air. Every episode seemed to be re-aird ad-nauseaum, effectively killing the need to tune in at any specific time. Additionally, even new episodes wound up being more or less a replay of every one that came before it. A ramming bot like Biohazard, or Vlad the Impaler would face off against a flailing bot like Mauler 5150. Mechadon was a shining reprieve from the monotony, but sadly, it was not a good bot in a fight (though far better than the same builder's snake like thing that came later)

    I like innovative, but there was little innovation, since blunt force was proven to work, and innovation was regularly eliminated early.
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    Image of J_Frank_Parnell J_Frank_Parnell
    09/21/09

    In reply to Create A New, Greener Car - And Become A Reality TV Star In The Process!
    I guess this is cool and all, but can't we just bring BattleBots back instead?
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    09/21/09

    @J_Frank_Parnell: MUCH more interesting and accessible.
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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    09/21/09

    In reply to Create A New, Greener Car - And Become A Reality TV Star In The Process!
    Juma is clearly in cahoots with big oil and the US government. they've secured exclusive television rights to make sure that none of this makes it to the airwaves, ensuring the public will never know about the vapor carburetor, and the car that runs on water.

    It's a conspiracy, man.
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    Edited by smalleyxb122 at 09/21/09 11:34 AM smalleyxb122 was starred smalleyxb122 was unstarred
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