Princess Carl
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What a powerful gif. Seriously.
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What a powerful gif. Seriously.
This thing really blew my mind as a kid.
Damn I remember this, never played it because it cost a arm and a leg.
And now I understand how Bigfoot could be misunderstood as a walking bear...
bishopcruz
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Hatsune Friggen Miku in concert. Good lord, mind was blown when I first heard about the holograms.
Good God!
I remember when I saw Macross Plus and thought, Holographic Concerts with computer generated Divas? That's crazy.
They actually predicted this
Good God!
I remember when I saw Macross Plus and thought, Holographic Concerts with computer generated Divas? That's crazy.
They actually predicted this
TrueGrime
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sankt-Antonio
:^)--?-<
BMW i8
lastplayed
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PL-01 concept vehicle. Looks like something out of Robocop.
MrCunningham
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Actually, heights don't bother me. It's if I'm standing on ground level with a huge building that I get sort of stressed out. As somebody who grew up in a suburb, cities are kind of an uncanny valley, which is why I don't like going to NYC.
Wind's Howling
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It has been said before but this is such a powerful GIF.
It brings joy to my heart just seeing him genuinely smiling by just grabbing something simple like a beer.
Indrid Cold1
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This thing:
What the hell is this. It looks like the final boss from a 90s shmup.
DiabolicalBagel
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Blargonaut
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I'm not too sure, to be honest; I found them during one of my daily internet trawls for references and thought they looked neat :/ I think some of the pictures are of Hong Kong though, maybe some of Japan?
All signs point to dystopia with an extreme rich/poor gap.
:/
TrueGrime
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This thing:
Can't imagine driving up to this monstrosity.
UnObtainium17
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Brb googling pics since antonio didn't post any.
sankt-Antonio
:^)--?-<
I'm on mobile! But while your at it, Google BMW i3 also
anonymous_abc
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Spaceport America.
You should watch Ghostrider 2 then.
Looks like they got the design from MI6.
You should watch Ghostrider 2 then.
not really futuristic but Amazon HQs looks like something out of a super hero movie
Looks like they got the design from MI6.
Kenshin001
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Eliica 8 wheeled electric car. Top speed 370 kmh.
swordfishtrombones
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Sbarro orbital (1989?)
Nowadays nobody ever thinks about it, but:
This (and other smartphones) are the most ridiculously awesomely futuristic things around. An ordinary citizen can access a system containing the entirety of human knowledge using a device that fits in the palm of the hand, wherever on the planet (OK, not quite true) they are. It's incredible.
This (and other smartphones) are the most ridiculously awesomely futuristic things around. An ordinary citizen can access a system containing the entirety of human knowledge using a device that fits in the palm of the hand, wherever on the planet (OK, not quite true) they are. It's incredible.
BurnOutBrighter
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The best thing about this is that his hand won't get cold or wet... well, it will, but it won't bother him.
Phat Michael
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Where in Dubai is that? I haven't seen it yet.
Crescent Moon Tower, Dubai
Phat Michael
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The i8 is astonishing in real life. I went to look at one at a dealer last week. They are sold out here until 2016 since BMW only make 500 per year.
The most depressing invention ever.
ReConstructDead
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The National Ignition Facility is a powerful laser-based inertial confinement fusion research device. NIF's mission is to achieve fusion ignition with high energy gain, and to support nuclear weapon maintenance and design by studying the behavior of matter under the conditions found within nuclear weapons (California):
The Z machine is the largest X-ray generator in the world and is designed to test materials in conditions of extreme temperature and pressure. The machine gathers data to aid in computer modeling of nuclear weapons and eventual nuclear fusion pulsed power plants (New Mexico):
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a neutrino telescope with thousands of sensors distributed over a cubic kilometer of volume under the Antarctic ice. IceCube is designed to look for point sources of neutrinos in the TeV range to explore the highest-energy astrophysical processes (Antarctica):
Super-Kamiokande is a neutrino observatory designed to search for proton decay, study solar and atmospheric neutrinos, and keep watch for supernovae in the Milky Way Galaxy (Japan):
The Z machine is the largest X-ray generator in the world and is designed to test materials in conditions of extreme temperature and pressure. The machine gathers data to aid in computer modeling of nuclear weapons and eventual nuclear fusion pulsed power plants (New Mexico):
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a neutrino telescope with thousands of sensors distributed over a cubic kilometer of volume under the Antarctic ice. IceCube is designed to look for point sources of neutrinos in the TeV range to explore the highest-energy astrophysical processes (Antarctica):
Super-Kamiokande is a neutrino observatory designed to search for proton decay, study solar and atmospheric neutrinos, and keep watch for supernovae in the Milky Way Galaxy (Japan):
swordfishtrombones
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The National Ignition Facility, or NIF, is a powerful laser-based inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research device (California):
The Z machine, Z Pulsed Power Facility, is the largest X-ray generator in the world and is designed to test materials in conditions of extreme temperature and pressure (New Mexico):
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory (or simply IceCube) is a neutrino telescope constructed at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station with thousands of sensors distributed over a cubic kilometer of volume under the Antarctic ice:
Super-Kamiokande (full name: Super-Kamioka Neutrino Detection Experiment, abbreviated to Super-K or SK) is a neutrino observatory designed to search for proton decay, study solar and atmospheric neutrinos, and keep watch for supernovae in the Milky Way Galaxy (Japan):
Awesome. I hope that, when these are decommissioned, they will be opened up to the general public.
PoweredBySoy
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Well, here's the grim reality of our future....
notoccupanther
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Not exactly 'Look' futuristic .. but considering Moore's Law, this could well end up in our smartphones within the decade
The Elite
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Hatsune Friggen Miku in concert. Good lord, mind was blown when I first heard about the holograms.
Good God!
I remember when I saw Macross Plus and thought, Holographic Concerts with computer generated Divas? That's crazy.
They actually predicted this
They really need to do a Jem and the Holograms concert.
Pakoe
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Three pilots?
ReConstructDead
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Big machines!
Dark matter detectors are pretty cool. These are images of the LUX ("Liquid Underground Xenon") experiment in South Dekota (the first picture shows the photomultiplier tubes at the top and bottom of the detector).
(The experiment itself consists of a chamber filled with liquid xenon. When dark matter (such as a neutralino, a hypothetical kind of WIMP - Weakly Interacting Massive Particle) collides with the nucleus of a xenon atom, the interaction produces photons (via scintillation; furthermore, secondary scintillation is produced when electrons are knocked out of orbit - ionizing the xenon - and pulled up by an electric field to a region of xenon gas near the top of the tank, releasing more photons). The photomultiplier tubes pick up these signals.)
(The experiment itself consists of a chamber filled with liquid xenon. When dark matter (such as a neutralino, a hypothetical kind of WIMP - Weakly Interacting Massive Particle) collides with the nucleus of a xenon atom, the interaction produces photons (via scintillation; furthermore, secondary scintillation is produced when electrons are knocked out of orbit - ionizing the xenon - and pulled up by an electric field to a region of xenon gas near the top of the tank, releasing more photons). The photomultiplier tubes pick up these signals.)
Marky Mark
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I've always thought MRIs look like something from the future.
Big machines!
lol this looks like a legit future work mech
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