Will we have hoverboards in just 5 years?
http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-hoverboard-lie-how-back-to-the-future-ruined-childhood/
Who here has watched “Back to the Future II?”
For one thing, they struck out with the phone booths. They’re getting obsolete as mobiles and prepaids are gaining so much momentum.
Flying cars are taking longer than we thought. Sure, we have the Moller, and I’ve read that they’ll be made into ambulances and police cars, and other emergency vehicles first, but I doubt it’ll happen that quick.
Then they had the hoverboard.
How will a lab figure out how to get a hoverboard to work within 5 years?
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I’d guess they’d work similarly to the way that magnetic trains work. Put a magnetic track down on the ground, and use magnets in the board to repel against them and effectively hover.
if (thats a big if) we can get room temperature super conductors, then hoverboards will be quite simple.
No. There are so many complexities regarding gravitational waves and how they operate – imagine creating an anti-gravity generator.
Still, getting a functioning generator is one thing – making it small and portable enough to use for personal transport another.
If you’re talking hoverboards using high-velocity air currents, don’t count on it. Generating that much wind to provide lift is very difficult without large machinery – calibrating something like that would be very, very difficult.
As @jackm pointed out, head to Pandora and grab some unobtanium. Maybe we can work something out then.
Perhaps. Engineers might use hoverboards and superfluid helium which seems capable of defying gravity.
Are you kidding me? DUHHHH we will have hoverboards.—at least I really REALLY hope so—
One issue with hoverboards would probably be safety. Even if we had the technology, do you think people would be willing to ride a vehicle which is probably about ten times as dangerous as a motorbike? I find skateboarding to be dangerous enough, without the feedback that wheels on pavement give, I think it would be a lot harder to control.
Hoverboards and flying cars are never going to happen. We have the technology now! But we have trouble catching criminals and getting ambulances places on a speedy basis as it is. Now imagine having to do that in mid air.
Hoverboards? The bad guys had them in San Francisco in one of my alltime favourite games; Steel Harbinger! They’re hard to ride because of the lack of friction. I forsee a lot of accidents! Still, how cool would that be? I don’t know enough about that technology so agree or disagree with @Pseudonym. Maybe he/she could sum it up for me, I’d like to know about it.
Hey I’m just curious have any of you ever read the series Uglies? If so could you answer whether that form of hoverboard is at all plausible? And also – how long do you think it will be before we a) have hoverboards and b) they are as available as cellphones or ipods – like in the books of Uglies. Thank you!
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