Comments on: The Original Futurama of 1939 http://www.retrofuture.com/index.php/2009/07/02/the-original-futurama-of-1939/ Where Yesterday's Tomorrow Is Still the Future. Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:17:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Faye Kane, Homeless Brain http://www.retrofuture.com/index.php/2009/07/02/the-original-futurama-of-1939/comment-page-1/#comment-4799 Faye Kane, Homeless Brain Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:17:05 +0000 http://www.retrofuture.com/?p=729#comment-4799 Yeah, well the '64 futurama had a lot of BS in it too. Like all the weather satellites transmitting pictures... to a world weather station at the north pole. Why the north pole? There's nothing up there. They could beam their signals to anywhere on earth. Perhaps it was so a single antenna could always see the geosynchronous satellite, but it would be touching the horizon, and it would be far cheaper to have receiving stations spaced globally. GOD! And don't EVEN get me started on 50-lane highways through the center of a city, or cities deep in the ocean for no reason. Oh, and the "kitchen of tomorrow" had cabinets that rose up out of the floor. So if you get a glass of water, you had to wait 15 seconds for the cabinet to rise up. You couldn't even put anything else oin top of that space 9or it would block the cabinet. Not to mention power failures, the cost of electricity to run the motors, and the certainty of motor failure within 10 years.' WTF were these people thinking? And why didn;t I notice the gross impracticalities when I was an amazed, wide-eyed little girl? -- faye kane idiot savant Yeah, well the ’64 futurama had a lot of BS in it too. Like all the weather satellites transmitting pictures… to a world weather station at the north pole.

Why the north pole? There’s nothing up there. They could beam their signals to anywhere on earth. Perhaps it was so a single antenna could always see the geosynchronous satellite, but it would be touching the horizon, and it would be far cheaper to have receiving stations spaced globally.

GOD!

And don’t EVEN get me started on 50-lane highways through the center of a city, or cities deep in the ocean for no reason.

Oh, and the “kitchen of tomorrow” had cabinets that rose up out of the floor. So if you get a glass of water, you had to wait 15 seconds for the cabinet to rise up. You couldn’t even put anything else oin top of that space 9or it would block the cabinet. Not to mention power failures, the cost of electricity to run the motors, and the certainty of motor failure within 10 years.’

WTF were these people thinking?

And why didn;t I notice the gross impracticalities when I was an amazed, wide-eyed little girl?

– faye kane idiot savant

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