Because assholes like money.

because i can

>>24172596
I think there's a government restriction on flying faster than sound over US airspace because of the sonic booms.

We figured out it's cheaper to send information than people.

Because Sonic Booms are fucking loud. There was one from a Typhoon in the UK today and half the country heard it.

Private companies are going to be doing iss missions pretty soon. I don't think its possible to get to space without going over the sound barrier by several fold.

>>24172596
The human race peaked in the mid 1970s. It's all downhill from here.

>>24172716
lol

>Why are we still using shitty 20th century technology?

Because they just werk, and they're cheap to repair.

>you will never travel across an ocean in a swept wing aircraft

>>24172763
Beancounters rule the world now.
Excel über alles!

>>24172763
You're an idiot. By that logic we should have never engineered anything because its more expensive than a more basic technology.

>>24172816
>By that logic we should have never engineered anything because its more expensive than a more basic technology

Except when the thing that gets engineered offsets the cost of it's development/maintenance.

Come back when you design a more cost effective airplane. I'm sure you'll get quite a few job offers.

>>24172816

Name me a more profitable aircraft for mass transportation. What, do you really want to pay x1000 more for a ticket so everyone can fly around in Concordes?

>>24172907
many do. they are just a bitch to build. and to fly.
the A5 uses about 18% of he fuel of a regular aeroplane but is not used yet because it takes a 3 times longer runway to takeoff and land. (and would be a bitch to navigate)

>>24172816

Technology gets created when people think it will make them money, or benefit their life enough to be worth the cost of development. It isn't cost effective to develop whole new models of planes that are incompatible with hardware and software currently in use.

Do I like flying around in decades old machines? No. Does it make sense that we do? Yes.

Because FDR ruined everything

>>24173056
>FDR
>Bad

>be old
>grew up reading books about hovercars, flying transport and traffic lights in the sky in 2010.

>implying 20th century technology isn't incredible

flying cars?

yeah right....meanwhile guys on motorcycles still get beefed by knobjobs driving SUVs with a burger in one hand and cellphone in the other

ITT: people who don't have a fucking clue about how economics work or how firms are ran.

>>24173067
>Failing Ponzi scheme New Deal
>Internment of Americans based on race THROUGH EXECUTIVE ORDER
>Confiscation of Americans property THROUGH EXECUTIVE ORDER (gold)
>Extended the Depression by 7 years
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/FDR-s-Policies-Prolonged-Depression-5409.aspx
>Spawned a legion of anti-free market faggots
>Broke 2 term tradition

Pretty much every problem we have today can be traced back to Woodrow Wilson and FDR.

>there will never be high-speed trains in the US

boy i sure love our trains, 8-11 hours to cover 600 miles, when i can drive that same distance in under 7

>>24173094
This, just look at all those incredible planes, the MIG-25, motherfucking mach 3.2!

Technology sometimes lags because jews want to make the most of it before it becomes absolutely obsolete, and because most people don't like change

>>24173056
>implying the us wouldn't be one of the best countries to live in if he hadn't lived a little bit longer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bill_of_Rights

We already fly as fast as we can without breaking the sound barrier and causing sonic booms. Modern jet airliners fly at around 80-85% of the speed of sound. Going any faster risks causing sonic booms due to the supervelocity of air over the wings/fuselage, which can be faster than the free-stream speed (speed of the plane).

>>24173174
>Food is a right

Fuck you guys so much.

>>24173202
>everything should be a commodity

You are the cancer killing the Earth.

>>24173174
>guaranteed employment
>guaranteed housing

the market would have a problem with this

>>24173244
>implying the free market is the solution for everything

Hows that healthcare working out for you, Americans?

>No private supersonic aircraft
not efficient anymore
>No flying cars
flying is far more complex than driving. also: there are flying cars
>travel is expensive
because fossil energy sources are limited

>>24173253
>Hows that healthcare working out for you

it's working out fine for me. i have insurance

(inb4 hurr they'll drop you!!!)

>>24173253
>Implying we have free market healthcare

>>24173253
>>24173253

have you seen a government controlled "housing project"? not pretty.

>>24173376
>americans can't into decent public housing

>>24173399
>typical non-response

/g/ - throw canned insults, wash, rinse and repeat!

>>24173376
they pay for them.

I saw one in new orleans, but they only focused on the part of the city not hit by anything and demolished and rebuild all the standing houses

THE HEBES

>1969
>Man on moon
>first flight of concorde
>woodstock

Wow, what a time to be alive.

>That feel when we are being restrained by nostalgia

>>24173510
>nobody cared about the apollo missions.
>concorde was elitist and not efficient as a method of travel. I only know one person who ever flew on one.
>woodstock was a capitalist cashgrab concert. which is only famous because of the hype surrounding it.

>>24173564

What a depressing life you must live.

>>24173560
Not really, the OM-D is for hipsters and Leica lovers

Look at the NEX, the other MFT cameras, and at all those EVIL cameras

>>24173560
THE NEW AESTHETIC IS COMING

>>24173629
The new aesthetic is going to be a lot of matte gray and silver with bright, high contrast user interfaces.

We're going full star trek

Where are my goddamn space elevators?

>>24173654
The OM-D is a retake on the 70's designs

Because we are in a new religion-based dark age. Hurr durr we don't need no NASA, we need to blow them moslems back to the stone age!

You have 5 seconds to explain how the United States, and the entire world, would not be in a technological paradise if they had still gone into debt, but instead spent that 3 TRILLION dollars on science and technology instead of war.

>>24173654
star trek doesn't look like that.

>>24173668
escalators are more efficient for space travel.

What breakthroughs do we have to look forward to now? Quantum computing?

>>24173682

There are more atheists in the US than ever before, and average church attendance is a an all-time low. Religion is a cancer, but not the main problem here.

>>24173682
TSA x10000000
thought crime
UK level surveillance

>>24173706
the next iPad!

>>24173682
shit happens.

but hey, now we have private sector companies interested in building space vehicles. that's pretty neat

>>24173682

Why are you bitching about shit everyone already knows about?

>>24173706

Free software reaching a critical mass, ie the Year of the GNU Desktop, with Linux Added®

>>24173714
>Religion is a cancer,

Thanks. I'm happy to be a member of that "cancer". (while being a university educated, contributing member of society)

>>24173682
Apparently you don't realize how much tech advancement comes through defense contracts? As apposed to pumping money into endless grants to study cow farts and torture rats.
The space program is a fucking unofficial defense program.

We had mach 2 back in the 50's why aren't we using mach 10?

>>24173714
Atheism is a religion, though. A religion means you believe in something, and atheists believe in an absence of a superior being.

>>24173764
Gnu/Linux will die within the decade and Plan9 will replace it.

>>24173777
Hurr drones are great for the average person. I love being surveilled!

>>24173790
>Gnu/Linux will die within the decade
>decade

It will be on its way out eventually, but I'd give it 15-20 years.

>>24173790
>Plan9
IWantToHabeeb.png

>>24173790
>atheists believe in an absence of a superior being.
nope.
atheism is the lack of belief in supernatural entities .

>>24173790
>Atheism is a religion

oh boy here we go

>>24173777
http://dirtyspendingsecrets.com/

fun fun fun

>>24173790
>Atheism is a religion

Do you even own a dictionary?

>>24173790
>Thread derailed
>Brought to you by your local tripfag

>>24173790
Atheism is a lack of belief in a deity, not the belief of its absence.

>>24173821
when atheists stop building churches in my city, I'll stop refering to them as a religion, I live in pittsburgh, pa there are currently two atheist churches. . .what the fuck guys.

>>24173610
indeed I do. but that's mostly due to my terrifying mental illness. I just enjoy things which deserve it.
>>24173777
that's engineering.
that shit gets grants anyway.
though the 20 billion a year on military air conditioning for two countries the us invaded.
>>24173799
the most powerful man in the known universe (Linus Torvalds) would not stand for your insolence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=yVpbFMhOAwE

>>24173729
Because OP is asking why we still have 20th century technology. This is why.

Ron Paul 2012

>>24173847
they are called schools.

Because the corporations with enough cash for cool shit are publicly owned and must make a profit short term which means nobody can do a project that won't be profitable within the next 20 years except the governments

>>24172596

Because physics pwns us.

Supersonic aircraft are fucking expensive and energy inefficient. Do you have any idea how much maintenance and fuel is required to make your typical jet fighter flight-worthy?

Flying cars are fucking stupid on so many levels, unless we can find some "magical" propulsion system that doesn't require a boatload of energy to stuff afloat. (Good luck!)

>>24174010
even ignoring the energy component

do you think we can even trust the general public to not crash their flying shit-boxes into buildings/each other? considering the clusterfuck we have already on normal roads

>>24174063
This, underground magnetic trains to everywhere would be incredible, instead of retarded flying cars

>>24172596
Blame it on the hippie environmentalists. Progress is slow as fuck because of all the red tape.

>>24174063
Then there is this I mean even if energy consumption was over 80% efficiency, on the other hand problems with complex technology in the hands of general public poses problems like these. I mean with the internet you see idiotic people looking up how make explosives.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQd7zqyd_EM

>>24174084

Mass/Public transportation is the answer.

>>24174084
they wouldn't need to be underground. I'd be fine with them being in between the two lanes of roads like in eastern europe.

>>24174297
> in between the two lanes of roads
>Implying they can take those curves at a high rate of speed.

>>24174335
with proper gauged tracks they could. I've seen it.
and you would not need a 300 km/h train inside in a city.

>>24174292

But then I'd have to ride with poor people.

>>24174145

Exactly! Before anything our society needs to change, then comes the flying cars and shit.

>>24174404
Simple, sell first class, buissness class and common class seats

>>24174292
Only losers take the bus.

>>24174404

I can't wait to grope white bois like you.

>>24173168

Beautiful plane, though it can only make 3.2 by burning the engines out in a blaze of highspeed glory.

>>24174441

AMERICA!

>>24172596

>No private supersonic aircraft

It exist, you're just too poor to afford one.

>No flying cars

It called a helicopter, but you're too poor to afford one.

>travel is expensive

You're just not rich enough.

>>24173788
Turbines can only spin so fast before the blades shatter.

>>24174459
The last black guy I met on a bus was a bro.

We watched MLP on my smartphone together. His favorite pony was pinkie because she had that "party swag".

>>24174533
This, but ramjets are the solution

>>24174404
but you are poor

>>24174568
line up 30 dyson bladeless fans.
>>24174554
how did you get to that? were you watching it to start with?

>>24174554
FUCK! never get on the bus

>>24174702

When was the last time you met a bro on your SUV?

Those "bladeless" fans still have a bladed compressor/turbine in the base.

>>24174730
1) don't have an suv
2) if i saw somebody *on* my car i'd flip some serious shit
3) oh, you meant *in* my vehicle...
4) fuck mlp and anyone who likes it

>>24174441
who told you that?
let me guess, a car company. fed by funds from oil companies to not build who buy gas from fields and sell to jews who then make it up a little more everyday because they can.

good job, you're a tool

>>24174748
you could replace that turbine with a bladeless fan!
>>24174767
I love busses. it's a pity they aren't very frequent in my area.

>>24174767
Nah. It's what happens when you ride the bus and discover that it is inhabited by The Scum of the Earth

at least this is how it goes in small cities with crap public transportation. seems only those that have no choice but take the bus, actually take the bus

>>24174441

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTHsTCBxDM8

>>24174748

>SHHHH! they are't supposed to know

EVERYONE PLEASE IGNORE HIM HE IS AN IDIOT. DYSON FANS RUN ON MAGIC FUTURE TECHNOLOGY INVENTED BY ME, JAMES DYSON, FOR THE BENEFIT OF YOU LESSER MORTALS

>>24174767
Busses use oil too!
Hipsted fixie master race!

>>24174670
>were you watching it to start with

I always watch anime/ponies on the bus, shit, sometimes I play pokemon.

PS: I only ride the bus because it's cheaper than driving downtown and paying for parking. I could drive but fuck that clusterfuck.

>>24174819
fixies are only good for flat environments

>>24174819
hipster buses run on CNG

>>24174819
bike chains use oil too. heel toe express master race.

>>24174819
>fixies

Less is not more when it comes to transportation. Only in software.

>>24174852
>not oiling up your chain with veggie

>>24174852
Oil was used to make your soles.

>>24174875
>He doesn't wear handmade leather sandals

>>24174860
veggie oil was produced by farming vegetables with tractors that burn oil.

>>24174891
>methane producing cows

>>24174891
>leather
DAMN ANIMAL KILLER!!! ASSASIN!!!

Nude feet enviromentally firendly master race

>>24174891
lol at this hippie prole. but yes, handmade leather oxfords

>>24174904
mexicans run on vegetable oil

>>24174925
it's fine it's made from human skin donated by my dead mother.

>>24174925
It depends on which animal.

Cows, for instance, are fleshy automations. Nobody cares about them except for idiots that personify anything with a pair of big, shiny eyes to look into.

Sup?