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Pity, but you could always go to see this Theatre of the Atom for the man in the street instead:

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It looks pretty hair raising.
 
Some more futuristic car design ideas from Ford. They look a little clunky to me - not your classic Ford designs.

The top design has an atomic power plant in the back remarkably similar to the 1960's TV Batman Batmobile but without the rocket power. They envisage electric charging stations to replace petrol stations (it is 2019 and some boroughs in London still have only 15 charging points in the whole borough.) The Land Cruiser, below it, looks like a cross between a Captain Scarlet SPC (Spectrum Patrol Car) and SPV (Special Patrol Vehicle.) They also mention Hovercraft, and it is amazing how popular they thought hovercraft were going to be.

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The above is NOT a single prop helicopter invention (that would kill you in seconds due to the unbalanced forces). It is a bearing supported/spin-control option for a parachute, based on the characteristics of a maple seed.

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Rolf Harris and his "electric finger" playing his Stylophone back in the early 70s

Nice idea, but the sound was extremely tinny - although that was more testament to my poor playing of it than anything



 
HanaBi said:
Rolf Harris and his "electric finger" playing his Stylophone back in the early 70s

Nice idea, but the sound was extremely tinny - although that was more testament to my poor playing of it than anything



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I'm sure I saw a proper orchestra playing once and it had a stylophone section, thinking back it was probably on Blue Peter or Magpie
 
This is Camp Century - a whole city and US Army Camp built beneath Greenland Ice Cap in the early 1960's during the Cold War. Hundreds of people lived and worked there in a state-of-the-art nuclear powered city, It was then abandoned after the ice began to shift and the underground tunnels were blocked. The nuclear reactor was hastily decommissioned and removed but the nuclear waste was left behind, buried under tonnes of ice. Now it has begun to melt due to rising temperatures, and the waste is liable to re-surface and become a real danger.

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