JMH always said that although the calendar 'year' was earlier for the Caterwaul universe, that their society and technology was further advanced than ours. It just didn't seem to extend to the cars, as the characters always seemed to be driving "60's earth style" muscle cars powered by large V8 engines.
I suspect Jim just liked muscle cars. I'd always envisaged small displacement multi-cylinder engines in the future, but complications for manufacture and losses through too many moving parts means that electrical is probably going to be the way of the future.
Scrapper, Black Dragon, "if you want more inches, stroke it!"
> From: "Rhudi rhudiprrt_at_gmail.com [SkunkworksAMA]" <SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com>
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>Jetsons? Dude? Where's my flying car.
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>(Youtube search for Kevin Smith flying car)
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>Rhudi
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>>All things considered, while we don't have a future like was
on the "Jetsons," we have it pretty good.
Received on Sat Nov 15 2014 - 03:18:18 CST