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%	[ 8 ]
noiseless chainsaws	3%	[ 4 ]
self-tying shoes	5%	[ 6 ]
a real holodeck	6%	[ 7 ]
compact warp drive	3%	[ 4 ]
holographic surround sound in a box	4%	[ 5 ]
real flying magic carpets	6%	[ 7 ]
safe personal jetpacks	8%	[ 9 ]
real hoverboard	5%	[ 6 ]
calorie-free cholesterol-free fat	3%	[ 4 ]
a pill that does away with dookie	2%	[ 2 ]
a brain amplifier	5%	[ 6 ]
star-trek-style food replicator	7%	[ 8 ]
machine that kills earthquakes and storms	3%	[ 4 ]
real androids	5%	[ 6 ]
intelligent sexbots	4%	[ 5 ]
phonograph record optical scanner	2%	[ 2 ]
machine that automatically heals all disease	13%	[ 15 ]
portable houses	4%	[ 5 ]

Total votes : 116

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25 Mar 2019, 8:00 am

Dylanperr wrote:

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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?

Because they travel around the world (20.000 leagues) in a submarine i.e. a ship that travels underwater (under the sea).

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26 Mar 2019, 6:42 am

blazingstar wrote:

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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.

in theory it should help in terms of blocking outright pain. it saved me.

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03 Sep 2019, 6:54 pm

Instant poutine like for example it is a frozen meal and you can pop it in the microwave very similar to a tv dinner.

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03 Sep 2019, 7:05 pm

Dylanperr wrote:

Instant poutine like for example it is a frozen meal and you can pop it in the microwave very similar to a tv dinner.

below, is a link to half of it-
https://www.amazon.com/St-Hubert-Poutin ... B008MOC11M

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03 Sep 2019, 7:12 pm

auntblabby wrote:

Dylanperr wrote:

Instant poutine like for example it is a frozen meal and you can pop it in the microwave very similar to a tv dinner.

below, is a link to half of it-
https://www.amazon.com/St-Hubert-Poutin ... B008MOC11M

That is awesome. Merci.

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03 Sep 2019, 7:23 pm

Dylanperr wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

Dylanperr wrote:

Instant poutine like for example it is a frozen meal and you can pop it in the microwave very similar to a tv dinner.

below, is a link to half of it-
https://www.amazon.com/St-Hubert-Poutin ... B008MOC11M

That is awesome. Merci.

Beaucoup.

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03 Sep 2019, 7:27 pm

Instantaneous transport system using higher-dimensional space. Shortest distance between two points - fold the piece of paper. Makes 'warp drive' unnecessary.

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03 Sep 2019, 8:32 pm

hmmmmm.... i thought that warp drive was just about folding or warping space.

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04 Sep 2019, 11:17 pm

A cure for all vision disorders. Blind people would suddenly have 20/20 vision & people with some colorblindness would suddenly see the full color spectrum that the average person can.

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05 Sep 2019, 1:00 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?
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I was the rare kid who knew that a "league" was three miles. So I was always baffled by the title of that story because it sounds like depth. But I finally deduced that it meant distance. Traveling a distance of 60 thousand miles while under the sea (not diving down 60 thousand miles into an ocean on a planet that's only 8000 miles wide).

Today we have nuclear submarines that can travel 60 thousand miles without surfacing. The nuclear reactors provide the power, and do so without need for refueling. The vessels make their own air supply and water supply out of sea water. The only problem is that the crews run out of food supply before you can go that far.

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05 Sep 2019, 1:01 am

Human microwaving.

If you're arms are dead tired from ten hours of work you just stick your arms into the therapeutic microwave and zap it. And you would get the equivalent of a hot bath, or an electric heating pad, or of slathering your arms of with Ben Gay.

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05 Sep 2019, 1:07 am

i think they did experiments on that matter and found the microwaves hard to meter, IOW people didn't feel anything until they were burning.

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05 Sep 2019, 1:36 pm

auntblabby wrote:

i think they did experiments on that matter and found the microwaves hard to meter, IOW people didn't feel anything until they were burning.

Probably not feasible.

The comedian George Wallace suggested using microwaves as a means of capital punishment.

"He killed 14 people? Ok. He gets 14 minutes. BING!. He's done.".

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05 Sep 2019, 3:55 pm

auntblabby wrote:

hmmmmm.... i thought that warp drive was just about folding or warping space.

I'm assuming the Trek version of warp drive. The ship travels in a bubble of subspace where it's possible to exceed C. My idea puts whatever you want to move in hyperspace
and takes it back out somewhere else. Assuming it needs some sort of bubble or field around it to keep hyperspace and normal space from meeting. Hyperspace would be instantaneous (think the recent BSG, not Trek or Bab 5).

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05 Sep 2019, 7:05 pm

auntblabby wrote:

redrobin62 wrote:

Expanding on AuntBlabby's inventions: Extract solo blues artists from the old field recordings and place them in Carnegie Hall backed by a chamber orchestra or rock band. The purists would tear me a new one for that but it'd be interesting to hear the old blues pioneers in different contexts.

something akin to that is being done, has been done for the last decade or so using advanced DSP algorithms, and is now in commercial products for everybody to use. one such product is ADX Trax Stems which soon is coming out for PC, has been a Mac product for about a year or so. the term for the process is "spectral source subtraction."

In the Nineties/early 2000's they made a top ten hit by electronically arranging Natalie Cole to sing a "duet" with her long deceased father Nat King Cole with the song "Unforgettable".

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06 Sep 2019, 12:54 am

naturalplastic wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

redrobin62 wrote:

In the Nineties/early 2000's they made a top ten hit by electronically arranging Natalie Cole to sing a "duet" with her long deceased father Nat King Cole with the song "Unforgettable".

i have that CD. before that by a few years, they crudely dubbed a 78 rpm record of hank williams Sr. singing "there's a tear in my beer" along with Hank II.

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