Ivan
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| posted on 16/9/12 at 07:21 AM |
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Tech things I would most like to see and never will.
I know this is kind of pointless but there are some things I would love to see in real life:
A modern-ish battle ship firing all its guns. (Like the Bismark)
An old ship of the line firing broadsides. (Like the Victory)
A WW2 dogfight.
A pre-aerodynamics aids Grand Prix.
One of the things I have seen is a battle helicopter hovering over a quarry and firing all guns (2 X 4 barrel Lewises) into it - a stupendous sight.
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tegwin
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| posted on 16/9/12 at 07:55 AM |
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Woa you have some very destructive desires, I would like to see you get some help :-p
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loggyboy
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| posted on 16/9/12 at 08:03 AM |
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My tech wish list goes the other way.
Time travel
Teleporter
Cloaking Device
A bit Sadtrek, and whilst I cant be sure I will 'never' see them, its highly inlikely.
Mistral Motorsport
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liam.mccaffrey
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| posted on 16/9/12 at 08:05 AM |
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I have to say a pre aero grand prix would be amazing
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bob tatt
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| posted on 16/9/12 at 08:14 AM |
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A remote control with mute button for the wife
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designer
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| posted on 16/9/12 at 08:20 AM |
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quote:
pre aero grand prix would be amazing
Luckily I saw Keke Rosberg fighting and 'throwing around' a 1000bhp (some say 1200bhp for qualifying!!) Williams FW10 around Silverstone.
1985? Once you have seen that the modern era of 'scalectric', 'on rails' cars are nothing!
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bi22le
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| posted on 16/9/12 at 08:30 AM |
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Not a full grid but goodwood FOS will show you some classic F1. I went about 5 years ago when they were celebrating 100 years of F1.
5 days of petroleum heaven and ringing ears!!
Track days ARE the best thing since sliced bread, until I get a supercharger that is!
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Me doing a sub 56sec lap around Brands Indy. I need a geo set up! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHksfvIGB3I
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steve m
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| posted on 16/9/12 at 08:33 AM |
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An end to all this needles killing,
All wars for what ever reason to end
For us all to live happilly with whoever, despite creed or religion or colour
For all War machinery, boats tanks planes, guns etc to be destroyed
For all imigrants in the UK who are benifit scroungers to Fuck off home, the ones that work and support there familys can stay
For us to vote for a Political party, and they actually do what they promised
all abit never never land ! sorry!
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scootz
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| posted on 16/9/12 at 08:37 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by loggyboy
My tech wish list goes the other way.
Time travel
Teleporter
Cloaking Device
A bit Sadtrek, and whilst I cant be sure I will 'never' see them, its highly inlikely.
Pretty much the same as my wish list. And maybe an international 'asshole' detector... anyone committing grand scale assholery is
pinpointed and vaporised!
[Edited on 16/9/12 by scootz]
It's Evolution Baby!
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snapper
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| posted on 16/9/12 at 08:40 AM |
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Travel to another star
My cousin is constructing a model of this for the British Interplanitary Society
Deadulas
Faster than Light Travel
When you like speed this is the holy grail
I also attended a lecture by Kelvin Long on faster than light travel
We can't be the only ones in the Universe can we
I eat to survive
I drink to forget
I breath to pi55 my ex wife off (and now my ex partner)
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emwmarine
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| posted on 16/9/12 at 08:51 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by liam.mccaffrey
I have to say a pre aero grand prix would be amazing
Hmmm... Let me think. You could could just go and see one of the many, many historic GP races and hey presto your amazing wish would come true.
Building a Dax Rush.
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Jon Ison
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| posted on 16/9/12 at 09:05 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by steve m
An end to all this needles killing,
All wars for what ever reason to end
For us all to live happilly with whoever, despite creed or religion or colour
For all War machinery, boats tanks planes, guns etc to be destroyed
For all imigrants in the UK who are benifit scroungers to Fuck off home, the ones that work and support there familys can stay
For us to vote for a Political party, and they actually do what they promised
all abit never never land ! sorry!
I could live with that list.
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AndyW
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| posted on 16/9/12 at 09:22 AM |
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technically I would like to see:
GROUP B Rally cars back like these
Pre aero F1
and
actually build your own sports car for £250
[Edited on 16/9/12 by AndyW]
[Edited on 16/9/12 by AndyW]
[Edited on 16/9/12 by AndyW]
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Slimy38
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| posted on 16/9/12 at 10:07 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by emwmarine
quote:
Originally posted by liam.mccaffrey
I have to say a pre aero grand prix would be amazing
Hmmm... Let me think. You could could just go and see one of the many, many historic GP races and hey presto your amazing wish would come true.
I'm not as convinced. I get the impression when people were driving these cars the first time round they were really going for it, 'no
guts no glory' so to speak. That would have been spectacular to watch. When they put them back on the track many decades later they seem more
paranoid about damaging the car (and themselves) so I expect the racing is 'diluted' for want of a better word.
My ultimate disappointing race was an Aston Martin race, there was all sorts of exotic machinery that sounded incredible, but none of them wanted to
risk damage so it was fifteen procession laps.
I think I'd have to look at the time travel device first, so I could go back in time and watch them when thy were first being raced...
Oh yeah, and the immigrant one sounds good, but I'd actually extend it to Brits who are benefit scroungers! 
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SteveWallace
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| posted on 16/9/12 at 10:20 AM |
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I'm going to try to build a time machine next weekend and if I'm successful, I'll put a post with full instructions on here
yesterday.
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 16/9/12 at 10:43 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by scootz
Pretty much the same as my wish list. And maybe an international 'asshole' detector... anyone committing grand scale assholery is
pinpointed and vaporised!
There would be a lot of smoke over Westminster then...
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scudderfish
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| posted on 16/9/12 at 11:48 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by loggyboy
Cloaking Device
You'll never see a working cloaking device 
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rusty nuts
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| posted on 16/9/12 at 12:32 PM |
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I've seen a few world war 2 dogfights, well I saw them in 1967 when the Battle of Britain was being filmed .
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nick205
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| posted on 16/9/12 at 01:30 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by bob tatt
A remote control with mute button for the wife
put me down for one of those provided it works on kids as well!
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coozer
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| posted on 16/9/12 at 01:39 PM |
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I would love to go back to August 1822 and see the very first railway haul its first load, have a look around the town and see what the population
boom did to it..
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1980 Z750
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StevenB
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| posted on 16/9/12 at 02:59 PM |
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Yep +1 for a teleporter.
While I love flying albeit the first and last 10 minutes
the middle several hours sitting cramped up is mind numbingly boring and
completely ruins any enjoyment I have for going on holidays.
Walking into my local Hilton and being wisked to the Hilton Seychelles
from foyer to foyer is my sort of travel plans.
I also do like Steve Ms idea of living happily together regardless of colour religion etc......
apart from them spongin immigrants....classic. : -)
And you were so close to that humanitarian peace prize nomination.
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Mr C
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| posted on 16/9/12 at 04:35 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by SteveWallace
I'm going to try to build a time machine next weekend and if I'm successful, I'll put a post with full instructions on here
yesterday.
and you may even be back before you started....
Girl walks into a bar and asks for a double entendre, so the barman gave her one
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jeffw
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| posted on 16/9/12 at 04:43 PM |
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I saw USS Missouri firing her main guns at Roosevelt Roads, although we where some distance away (4-5miles) it was still impressive.
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Ivan
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| posted on 16/9/12 at 04:50 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by jeffw
I saw USS Missouri firing her main guns at Roosevelt Roads, although we where some distance away (4-5miles) it was still impressive.
I bet - in Simon's Town there are some coastal defense guns that can't be fired because they will break every closed window in the town -
apparently when they test fired them during WW2 they sent a messenger around town to tell all residents to open their windows. Have visited some of
them and they still look very impressive, think there is a serious tourism opportunity going wanting for a tour of them with sound and smoke effects
and some good video.
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jeffw
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| posted on 16/9/12 at 06:00 PM |
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To protect the RN Dockyard (as was).
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