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Pic #2: "Flying saucer buses" = hovercraft with terrible aerodynamic design = ride that thing every day and the sheer noise of it would totally destroy your hearing in less than a month. There are good reasons why we never bothered to invent certain things.
Last pic: Those flying saucer looking things appear possibly inflated, meaning they would basically be zeppelin/airship type things, again with terrible aerodynamic design. I can't see any obvious form of propulsion, though. Maybe they deploy sails once they get to cruising altitude? At least they'd be quiet. Those trains are way to ostentatiously pointy at the front end. Probably faster than the round flying gasbag things. I really wonder sometimes what people back then were smoking when they visualized the future.
I was always mystified by the INTENSITY of those "Cities of the Future", when year 2000 seemed "impossibly" far off. They had everything in one picture/illustration. Ground traffic, air traffic, mass transit everywhere. Nothing was questioned as to the engineering aspects, just that these were the predictions of where things would be and WE could make them all happen.
As they were "dreams/projections", NOBODY worried how they would be paid for or how expensive they might be to do. Especially considering that most tech was still "analog", as "digital tech" was still years in the future. Yet there was boundless optimism in our society that "Science" would progress and make it all possible.
@Cdadbr...I'll kill two birds with one stone(although I love my birds and would never harm them) with this comment:
And then god created the religious radicals and the science deniers. Amen
Imagine all this in an earthquake !
Talk about tumbling down.
And the heliplane, imagine that thing crashing through all those traffic congested elevated highways in that city of tomorrow, disasters galore .:(
-Rj
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