Opposing the Inhuman Aspect of Overdesign with Private (As Well asBureaucratic) Pork in a Post-Pork World

Just another example of how the agnostic anti-intuitives can't raise
their heads out of the sand when it comes to real innovation:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/anthony...s-and#comments

Every comment here shows how to smear a liberal, a democrat, the
unions, big government, increased regulations, celebs, unqualified
mechanics, international not-so-American automobiles, the
deteriorating Detroit culture, the housing market, the value of money
- ALL miss the boat in pointing to the real evidence - automotive job
markets became saturated by OVERDESIGN - to quote from David Hapgood
(paraphrased):

"As he contemplates the new cars available to him, the average buyer
had a virtually infinite number of choices. Or, to put it another way,
he has no choice at all. In recent years the industry has offered the
customer so many options - in body styles, gadgets, decor, etc., etc.
- that the buyer can feel he is designing his own car, as indeed Ford
once said of its Mustang. Marshal McLuhan once estimated the possible
variations on one model at 25 million, and a Yale Physicist is said to
have calculated that the "number of different cars that a Chevrolet
customer conceivably could order was greater than the number of atoms
in the universe." This was truly the American Dream - every man not a
king but a car designer, which is probably better anyhow.”

The real truth is never seen on the populist's radar screen, because
the real truth is involved with the redesign of the transportation
system, as well as the vehicle used to get us there. NO, we would
NEVER MENTION THAT ALTERNATIVE now would we?

http://www.moller.com/index.php?opti...52&It emid=60

David Hapgood (paraphrased) continues:

"This dreary sameness under the cover of apparent diversity is
possible because competition was killed off long ago. In the early
years of the industry, there were up to 100 firms making automobiles
and offering the buyer choices ranging from standard transportation of
the Model T to all sorts of individualistic variants like Stutz, Cord,
and so on. The little firms were gobbled up or driven out one by one.
Now the (mostly American) industry is fast becoming a monopoly
dominated by the government - General Motors, for example."

America needs to stop the rhetoric and develop the Skycar for all of
those lost souls who feel uncomfortable about the role of America in
private transportation systems:

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.s...67f79793ffbdfb

Gasoline powered automobiles could be phased out incrementally, as the
need for coastal and/or floodplain reclamation increases. Highways
divide rather than join the natural harmony of a continuous landscape.
Flying and hovering craft would help to restore that continuity, as
well as shift the large pork-barrel spending to more useful things,
such as orbital docking stations leading to orbital housing, hotels
and other, industrial facilities.

I'm not saying that we should phase out automobiles entirely. We
should phase IN things like skycars while contemporaneously phasing
OUT the antiquated automobile. Highway systems could then be strictly
used for commercial transport, expanding the current industrial base
to be not-so-dependent upon uniformity and regimentation.

Independence would be at an all time high. Entrepreneurialism would
reign supreme. More chances for more people to go more places.
Security in remote areas would rely on RFID tagging, radar, and
geolocation telemetry to establish residence. We'd still have much of
the same: roadway infrastructures (DMV, Dept. of Transportation,
County Tax Commissioner, Sheriff's Department, Police Departments,
etc.) and utilize these systems for the BASE economic infrastructure,
while retaining a nationally wide conglomorate of airport-vested and
modernized "communication highway" system (i.e. FAA, FCC, etc.) that
becomes transformed by an industry-wide reinvention of transferrable
skill sets in these areas, to a completely air-based, individual
commuter transport system.

IMO, a more massive earth-to-orbit technology actually REQUIRES this
kind of infrastructure to take hold and maintain what this country
already has at its disposal - concrete-and-mortar transportation
systems for delivering the goods that we manufacture in orbit to the
industries at home.

Orbital manufacturing also means security and privacy for
interplanetary transporatation systems being manufactured in a
somewhat clean and safe environment - environmentally controlled so
that whatever habitations are required by the scientists and engineers
in order to perform their tasks more efficiently, are routinely
available to those who are joined as a team (for making a profit) to
whoever their customers might be.


American

"It ain't bragging if you've done it, and it ain't bragging if you
can
do it."

- Babe Ruth