what things do you think SHOULD have been invented

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what things do you want somebody to invent?

a perpetual motion machine	3%	[ 3 ]
antigravity boots	7%	[ 7 ]
noiseless chainsaws	4%	[ 4 ]
self-tying shoes	6%	[ 6 ]
a real holodeck	7%	[ 7 ]
compact warp drive	3%	[ 3 ]
holographic surround sound in a box	5%	[ 5 ]
real flying magic carpets	6%	[ 6 ]
safe personal jetpacks	8%	[ 8 ]
real hoverboard	6%	[ 6 ]
calorie-free cholesterol-free fat	4%	[ 4 ]
a pill that does away with dookie	2%	[ 2 ]
a brain amplifier	6%	[ 6 ]
star-trek-style food replicator	7%	[ 7 ]
machine that kills earthquakes and storms	4%	[ 4 ]
real androids	5%	[ 5 ]
intelligent sexbots	4%	[ 4 ]
phonograph record optical scanner	2%	[ 2 ]
machine that automatically heals all disease	13%	[ 14 ]
portable houses	3%	[ 3 ]

Total votes : 106

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23 Feb 2019, 5:55 pm

I think Rome should of invented steam power that we could of had more advanced technology.

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23 Feb 2019, 6:16 pm

nick007 wrote:

Wolfram87 wrote:

Intelligence is sexy, but the idea of intelligent sexbots seems kind of creepy.

I wish we had the ability to DL celebrity's profile, their look & personality onto a blank robot so you could kinda get the experience of dating the celeb. Like on the Futurama ep where Fry DLed Lucy Liu & started dating her.

Still pretty creepy. And would we be dating a copy of their actual personality, or some distilled version of their public persona? I imagine plenty of Hollywood sex icons would be nightmares to date.

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20 Mar 2019, 2:55 pm

A submarine that can go 20000 leagues under the sea like it did in the Jules Verne novel 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.

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20 Mar 2019, 3:25 pm

Dylanperr wrote:

A submarine that can go 20000 leagues under the sea like it did in the Jules Verne novel 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.

Pretty sure that already exists.

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20 Mar 2019, 3:27 pm

Memory removal like in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

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20 Mar 2019, 8:50 pm

The oceans are not 60,000 miles deep. This could only happen on Jupiter or Saturn.

A league is three miles.

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20 Mar 2019, 11:51 pm

a portable device that when you place it inside an old jalopy, it cancels out all the noise inside the passenger compartment.

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21 Mar 2019, 1:56 am

kraftiekortie wrote:

The oceans are not 60,000 miles deep. This could only happen on Jupiter or Saturn.

A league is three miles.

Which is why 20.000 leagues refers to distance, not depth.

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21 Mar 2019, 5:08 am

I don't know how to do the multiple quotes, but here are some comments:

For mechanical whales see Christopher Moore's "Fluke." Although just that sentence is a bit of a spoiler.

For portable houses: these are called tents. (no offense here to the homeless; I am just an avid wilderness traveler and can live in them for months.)

And I truly did not realize that 20,000 leagues under the sea reference distance traveled horizontally and not vertically. Is that the case? Did anyone know how deep the ocean was when Verne wrote that book?

What I personally would settle for now, in terms of inventions, is something that would relieve neurogenic pain.

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21 Mar 2019, 5:13 am

blazingstar wrote:

I don't know how to do the multiple quotes, but here are some comments:
For mechanical whales see Christopher Moore's "Fluke." Although just that sentence is a bit of a spoiler.
For portable houses: these are called tents. (no offense here to the homeless; I am just an avid wilderness traveler and can live in them for months.) And I truly did not realize that 20,000 leagues under the sea reference distance traveled horizontally and not vertically. Is that the case? Did anyone know how deep the ocean was when Verne wrote that book?
What I personally would settle for now, in terms of inventions, is something that would relieve neurogenic pain.

do you think that TENS would help with your neuropathy?

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21 Mar 2019, 5:20 am

blazingstar wrote:

And I truly did not realize that 20,000 leagues under the sea reference distance traveled horizontally and not vertically. Is that the case? Did anyone know how deep the ocean was when Verne wrote that book?

It is the case. And no, they probably didn't know how deep the ocean is. But 20.000 (metric) leagues is 80.000 kilometers, or about two laps around the Earth at the equator. I'm pretty sure they knew the oceans couldn't be quite that deep.

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24 Mar 2019, 11:53 pm

Wolfram87 wrote:

kraftiekortie wrote:

The oceans are not 60,000 miles deep. This could only happen on Jupiter or Saturn.

A league is three miles.

Which is why 20.000 leagues refers to distance, not depth.

How come it says under the sea?

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24 Mar 2019, 11:55 pm

Portable computer hard drive. Put it into a computer and you can have everything you downloaded to your computer and take it with you to use on a public computer.

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25 Mar 2019, 12:02 am

auntblabby wrote:

wearable air conditioning, or electronic clothing that is just a force field of energy that becomes opaque so people don't see your nekkid body.

Doesn't that exist. Air conditioned jackets.

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25 Mar 2019, 12:07 am

^^^where have you seen this?

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25 Mar 2019, 6:45 am

auntblabby wrote:

blazingstar wrote:

I don't know how to do the multiple quotes, but here are some comments:
For mechanical whales see Christopher Moore's "Fluke." Although just that sentence is a bit of a spoiler.
For portable houses: these are called tents. (no offense here to the homeless; I am just an avid wilderness traveler and can live in them for months.) And I truly did not realize that 20,000 leagues under the sea reference distance traveled horizontally and not vertically. Is that the case? Did anyone know how deep the ocean was when Verne wrote that book?
What I personally would settle for now, in terms of inventions, is something that would relieve neurogenic pain.

do you think that TENS would help with your neuropathy?

I get TENS in PT sessions. No idea if it helps or not.

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