ljames555
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just about to go out and hes saying he thinks 500 years times we wont use planes because only way we will travel is going through yes through the earth  
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Sam
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How does he think this will be achieved?
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abdus
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quote: Originally posted by Sam
How does he think this will be achieved?
being dead? 
  
[Edited on 29-04-2006 by abdus]
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John
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To make that viable at all, even without worrying about any practicalities to do with it, it would have to be faster to travel over land than air.
Which atm it isn't.
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Jambo
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quote: Originally posted by John
To make that viable at all, even without worrying about any practicalities to do with it, it would have to be faster to travel over land than air.
Which atm it isn't.
Or cheaper!! But drilling throught the planet core doesnt sound errrr cheap 
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John
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Its not and you can't.
The lowest anybody has got is only a few km.
That wouldn't even be through the skin if the earth was an apple.
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Broze
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The future will probably just have faster planes or somat. Maybe teleportation in a few hundred years.
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Carl
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i think we will all be dead in the nex 100 or so years.
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Greg_M
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quote: Originally posted by Broze
Maybe teleportation in a few hundred years.
already happening which is
they have teleported atoms from place to place
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OGX
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think your mates been watching too many cartoons!
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Jules S
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quote: Originally posted by Greg_M
quote: Originally posted by Broze
Maybe teleportation in a few hundred years.
already happening which is
they have teleported atoms from place to place
This is true, believe it or not 
IIRC the future (at present) is looking like out of atmosphere travel
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Ry_B
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Has your mate been watching Futurama?
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