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PhazonLink posted:god you nerds, flying obviously has some light defense buffs and other required secondary powers so you dont self injure unless you do dumb poo poo like max speed stuff. naw it turns out the US MIC is incapable of doing the most basic of tasks when it comes to securing its airspace from flying people https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54552380 or it was the mic doing the flying lol
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PhazonLink posted:god you nerds, flying obviously has some light defense buffs and other required secondary powers so you dont self injure unless you do dumb poo poo like max speed stuff. Nope, no extra powers or adaptations. People with the power of flight would kill themselves via accidents 100x the background rate of normal accidental death at a minimum. I've never understood why someone would choose flight knowing the dangers of acceleration and gravity.
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May 7, 2021 00:35
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Driving is already a nightmare in on a flat surface, I don't even want to think about having to merge and deal with other drivers in a three-dimensional space hundreds of feet in the air. I'm also sure that an AI that can barely handle not slamming into the divider on the ground is going to be excellent at handling the effect of crosswinds on a tiny aircraft in the notoriously not windy spaces between tall buildings. Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Nope, no extra powers or adaptations. Look at this rear end in a top hat not choosing to evolve pneumatized bones. What a maroon  Beelzebufo fucked around with this message at 00:40 on May 7, 2021 |
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May 7, 2021 00:37
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Just fly at your normal walking or running speed. Being able to go over obstacles or across streets without waiting for a traffic light, or making sure an auto-car won't run you over, would save tons of travel time compared to going on foot.
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May 7, 2021 00:52
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invisibility would sure help craft investor storytime demos, all I can think of for flight is trying to pitch a non-functional jetpack
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May 7, 2021 01:45
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Man you go straight up 500m, enjoy the view, do a fuckin somersault or 12, jump off a mountain and go wheeeee, poo poo is amazing
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May 7, 2021 01:50
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Silly Burrito posted:Be a cool casino thief like Danny Ocean. There was a really cool comic I read a while ago about how the writer distinctly remembered, as a toddler, being able to float down stairs if they kind of held their breath and didn't think about it too hard. I have the exact same memory. The same distinct feeling of perfect, euphoric, nearly indescribable weightlessness that I used to be able to experience for brief bursts and now can't. Flight is "pointless" as a power only if you think about powers as means to an end; as far as powers as ends in and of themselves go, flight is the absolute best, especially if you get to swoop and dive and jump off buildings to build momentum and such. I would very much like to be able to fly because I think it would be very fun. gently caress all of that bullshit about ah but what crimes could you get away with et cetera.
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May 7, 2021 02:09
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Somfin posted:There was a really cool comic I read a while ago about how the writer distinctly remembered, as a toddler, being able to float down stairs if they kind of held their breath and didn't think about it too hard. I do this in dreams to this day.
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Even if you could travel at car speeds then you’re still spending a lot of time getting from place to place. The last job I had a significant commute to was about forty minutes away in light traffic and most of that was a straight shot down a freeway. As the crow flies that would probably still be about twenty to thirty minutes each way, except way less comfortable since I’d be out in the cold, windy sky instead of in my nice climate-controlled car. Flying at airplane speeds (with appropriate safety gear, whatever that would involve) would still be pretty terrible. That five hour flight to Hawai’i is still a five hour flight except I don’t get to take a nap or have a snack since there’s nothing but ocean below me. Continental travel is vaguely feasible since you can land at small towns along the way to use the bathroom but you’re still spending hours on the trip.
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You also can’t carry much with you with most depictions of magical flight, and that’s true of most “flying cars” as well. A Cessna 172 has about four hundred pounds payload, depending on exact model, with full fuel, and the pilot’s own weight eats directly into that. Flying cars have to make more tradeoffs than purpose‐built planes and their carrying capacity and range would suffer for that.
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blastron posted:...Continental travel is vaguely feasible since you can land at small towns along the way to use the bathroom but you’re still spending hours on the trip. look at this guy that wont piss or dump midflight
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PhazonLink posted:look at this guy that wont piss or dump midflight Think of the mess that would make at 500 mph.
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Silly Burrito posted:Think of the mess that would make at 500 mph. just fly backwards or forwards, respectively
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Again, you're not using flight right if you're just using it as a utilitarian way to abbreviate travel; if you wanted that, you'd pick teleportation as your power. Flying is a poo poo power if you want to do something with it that isn't flying. Flying is explicitly a power you take for the joy of flying. E: Also if we're doing superpower picking can we not do the thing where after someone picks a power folks pipe up with arbitrary limitations and other bullshit, jesus we're talking about people who can fly through the air, the idea of "ah but you can only do that at your walk speed" how the gently caress does that make sense, can you only fall at your walking speed, do you think folks fly with their walk muscles Somfin fucked around with this message at 03:37 on May 7, 2021 |
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May 7, 2021 03:35
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Flying cars ended up being one of those impossible dreams where the risks involved meant the concept wasn't viable even though it's mechanically possible. Helicopters are pretty close to what people envisioned with their flying car, but we still use helipads and trained pilots rather than just letting people roam freely with them. Small planes are closer to the flying car concept these days, because you really can travel pretty easily in one. If UberFlights ever became a thing, it would be by connecting customers to non-commercial prop pilots who are currently just Craigslisting.
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May 7, 2021 03:46
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Kaal posted:Helicopters are pretty close to what people envisioned with their flying car, but we still use helipads and trained pilots I found where they should be pouring money into self-driving AI.
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May 7, 2021 03:54
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billionaires could just introduce self-crashing Predator drone "flying taxis" into major cities and we'd be accustomed to a new way to get randomly and senselessly killed within a week 
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Kaal posted:If UberFlights ever became a thing, it would be by connecting customers to non-commercial prop pilots who are currently just Craigslisting.
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Foxfire_ posted:This is fairly illegal now and FAA cracks down on people that try to do it. If you advertise for passengers, you go under commercial carrier regulation, not general aviation regulation. But you see the pilot is an independent contractor and uberflights isn't liable for something something words 6-3 decision
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xarph posted:But you see the pilot is an independent contractor and uberflights isn't liable for something something words 6-3 decision
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Somfin posted:Again, you're not using flight right if you're just using it as a utilitarian way to abbreviate travel; if you wanted that, you'd pick teleportation as your power. Flying is a poo poo power if you want to do something with it that isn't flying. Imagine the mess if you accidentally telefragged someone at work
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PT6A posted:Yes but how do you get in? Grab a rope as it swings by and start climbing? Fulton balloons.
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Andrast posted:Imagine the mess if you accidentally telefragged someone at work Imagine getting the ability to teleport and thinking drat that would help my commute
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Andrast posted:Imagine the mess if you accidentally telefragged someone at work I've always figured that unless you teleport into a near vacuum, you're going to instantly suffer from the bends as all that nitrogen intermingles with your body and then you die of multiple brain hemorrhages.
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Somfin posted:Imagine getting the ability to teleport and thinking drat that would help my commute Yeah, youre new job is "hit every bank in the us and then go live in the bahamas for the rest of forever"
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mandatory lesbian posted:Yeah, youre new job is "hit every bank in the us and then go live in the bahamas for the rest of forever" Isn't this basically that movie Jumper
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:rip stupid flying car concept, you were the same as thousands of other stupid flying car concepts and you will be the same as the thousands of stupid flying car concepts to come, all of which equally feed the hollow emotional needs of gullible consumer tech advocates and business journalists on tight deadlines We know how this ends up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nbz5VFilxY
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VideoGameVet posted:We know how this ends up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nbz5VFilxY Was just trying to dig that one up to post.
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Failure modes of planes are bad enough. We don't want car sized objects that drop like a boulder from the sky (or worse, a cloud of energized shrapnel) onto population centers when they have engine trouble.
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Paolomania posted:Failure modes of planes are bad enough. We don't want car sized objects that drop like a boulder from the sky (or worse, a cloud of energized shrapnel) onto population centers when they have engine trouble. a helicopter crashed into a building in manhattan a year or two ago - it was a minor miracle nobody died on the ground
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I sometimes wonder if Kobe Bryant’s death will be associated with the death of flying car fantasies for the decade.
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Silly Burrito posted:Think of the mess that would make at 500 mph. 
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New Flappy Bird lookin' good
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ive always wanted to be a bird
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aphid_licker posted:Wait what? What's a noncreepy thing you could be doing with invisibility? gently caress that, be a birb. 1. Walk into Area 51 or the Pentagon or the NSA building and leak as much information as humanly possible. 2. Walk into the Fox News hq and wreak havoc. 3. Pull off huge heists. Personally I would still prefer flight so I could travel around the world, assuming radar doesn't pick me up and I'm shot down E: /\/\/\ if Delta-Wye is right then I shouldn't have to worry about that. America Inc. fucked around with this message at 19:27 on May 7, 2021 |
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adoration for none posted:1. Walk into Area 51 or the Pentagon or the NSA building and leak as much information as humanly possible. Use my powers for good? Nah, I'm gonna pants Hannity live on-air. Although that probably is a valid example of using the powers for good.
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Plant twenty pounds of coke in his car and narc on him Personally I'd take flight because you get to see the world, eat fresh produce anywhere on the planet for free, live in countries with affordable rent, and you can make a fortune in adventure tourism youtubing, and smuggling/courier work. Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 19:48 on May 7, 2021 |
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evilweasel posted:a helicopter crashed into a building in manhattan a year or two ago - it was a minor miracle nobody died on the ground I'm going to take a wild guess that over the last 19 years, more people on the ground have been killed by windows falling from buildings than by planes, helicopters or drones. Somfin posted:Imagine getting the ability to teleport and thinking drat that would help my commute Imagine getting the ability to teleport and not immediately teleporting into a wall or 50 feet above/below the ground. And y'all thought flying was unsafe?
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eXXon posted:Imagine getting the ability to teleport and not immediately teleporting into a wall or 50 feet above/below the ground. And y'all thought flying was unsafe? More like teleporting into outer space, since the planet ain't exactly standing still in this universe.
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https://twitter.com/verge/status/1390679579958943744quote:“Elon’s tweet does not match engineering reality per CJ. Tesla is at Level 2 currently,” the California DMV said in the memo about its March 9th conference call with Tesla representatives, including the director of Autopilot software CJ Moore. Level 2 technology refers to a semi-automated driving system, which requires supervision by a human driver. No loving poo poo
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