Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 15, 2024

Panel 3 sounds like how the Jetsons and Flintstones were able to exist in the same time period.

You have to draw the line somewhere.

Imagine the wonder… commuter flying cars, backed up for miles like ribbons in the sky….

Jeffrey stole that robot rebellion idea from The Terminator and Battlestar Galactica. ;-)

“. . . . to search for a planet to start over,” which, when found, they will spoil and despoil until they themselves dwindle into oblivion. Again. Sure, they’ll start over with bright, shiny, good, new ideas. But they’ll end up doing the same things we did this first time, producing the same result.

Whenever somebody talks about flying cars, I think of them dropping like flies after each fender bender.

The reason we don’t have flying cars is because too may people are still attached to expensive fossil fuel. If we had low cost energy like fuel cells, that aren’t controlled by a cartel, we would have the extra energy required for cars to fly.

Thank God I’ll be dead by then, although I wouldn’t mind the adventure. Flying cars? Now that might be a problem …

I saw an article about a flying car that’s in testing right now. 3-minutes to convert, road legal and more expensive than I’m willing to contemplate. They didn’t mention FAA-legal.

Considering how many drivers are inept at driving in more or less a straight line, I shudder to imagine what it will be like when they can move in three dimensions.

The way a lot of people drive would make flying cars total chaos. Lots of wrecks, mainly upon takeoff and landing. Given 3 dimensions, f

Flying cars would make carjackings less common. Unless some anti-gravity or jet packs are developed to let the thugs get up there.

The only way flying cars could possibly work is if they were driver-less with passengers just specifying the destination.

Flying cars currently exist! Seriously. Google them.

Robot slaves exist today. They’re called Liberal Democrats and clones are not necessary because we have an Open Border. God Save America.

The people that can afford a flying car already have one along with a pilot to fly it and a limo to take them to the place where they park it.

50 years ago today probably no one thought everyone would have their own personal computers and would actually spend as much or more time using them as watching TV.

The robots don’t have to rebel. They just have to hack the brain plugs.

One thing that should always be kept in mind about flying cars – Gravity Wins!

Back to the Future II . . .Stainless Steel Rat. . .Vorbar Sultana. . .been there, done that. . .

The biggest problem with flying cars isn’t technological. We have the technology for flying cars now. The problem is, people are not as observant as we think we are. We have so many ground-car accidents every day that we only report them as traffic hazards. Imagine if all of thoze accidents were moved into the sky, where the pieces could rain down on the populace below. The hospitals and morgues wouldn’t be able to handle it. Stop acting like flying cars are something we should be looking forward to. That’s insane.

The only way flying cars would even be remotely feasible is for there to be some new source of power. And, of course, you would have that subset who would argue against said source of power and make it a political hot potato…So…no flying cars anytime soon.

“The Toxic Spell Dump” people have flying carpets and air pollution from the fibers falling off is a major problem.

Based upon how drivers are these day, it would be much, mch worse if they were flying.

Yesterday, I wrote (about flying cars):

3) The American driver. Think about it.

Apparently everybody thought about it. :-)

Flying cars and crazy talk — just like fifty years ago!

And who would know crazy talk better than these two?

Flying cars WILL be a thing soon!

I think it will be human slaves who rise up against the robots and will lose because life isn’t like the movies

Most people can barely manage to drive on the ground, so I’m with Jeffrey on this one. The idea of flying cars for the public was never anything but crazy talk.

Teleportation: killing the organism by distroying it, transmitting the data and reconstructing a copy at the receiving/arrival area.

People want bots & clones because they still want slaves. Slaves are always revolting, for good reason.

I clearly remember a Sunday comic strip that discussed possible future tech marvels. The two tht come to mind are flying cars and self driving cars.

I don’t want to replace reading. Sometimes I listen to the words I’m saying, their patterns and rhythms. Reading the words, the phrases, and the thoughts of others can be music for my brain.

Imagine cars that drive and crash without human input, no need to wait 50 years for them either.

Where is my flying car!?!?!?!?!?!

Flying cars would be awesome. Crashing cars not so much.

not unlike autonomous vehicles. Awhile back a lady was walking her bicycle across the street. The car was programmed to stop for a bicycle, or a pedestrian, but not a pedestrian walking with a bicycle, so it hits her. Gee, who woulda thunk that a self driving car could be a problem? But, to be fair, most cars with someone behind the wheel don’t do much better…

It appears that he doesn’t understand cloning, and teleportation. And flying cars already exist – they’re called helicopters.

People cannot park as it is. Imagine millions of these clowns trying to corner in a vehicle with no traction.

My Jetpack is still on back order.

I’d rather have high-speed rail (city-to-city) and self-driving commuter service (to and from work/shopping) than flying cars. No more getting ripped off by insurance companies

What makes anyone think that the only version of the future is determined by Television and Popular culture. Guess the old newspapers had it right when they dumbed themselves down to a 3rd grade reading level! ;-) Come on Weekend !

Future? Everything Jeremy said is in the past, it our history, it’s how we got here!

think of the accidents

Imagine car engines failing and falling out of the sky… or crashing at 250 mph…

I think Jeffery just ripped off a line from Cosmo Cramer.

He has a time machine and could find out.

They had flying cars,but Mr.Spacely cheated George Jetson on t he patent rights

Aligned with the name of this strip, here is a Non-Sequitur observation:

The blog Raw Story runs a periodic political poll. The current results of the most recent one (as posted on 17 Aug 24) were:

“Should Vice President Kamala Harris be our next president?”

Yes – 21480 votes

No – (2333) votes

Of 23,813 total responses, that’s 9.8% against, and 90.2% for, Harris.

Granted, that doesn’t account for undecided or media bias. Still, even if 30% of those who might have voted in this poll, did not because they were ‘undecided’, and all those voted ‘No’, Harris still would win the election by more than 10% of the vote.

It’s not a definitive measure, and I’m not trying to make it such. I do find it interesting that, of those who felt strongly enough to take time to vote in this obscure little poll, such a huge majority voted that she should be the next President.

If anything close to this gap presents itself during the election in November 24, Kamala Harris will be elected in one of the biggest landslide popular vote victories in the history of the US. It would far surpass James Monroe’s 64.69%, and and be beaten only by George Washington’s two 100% (unopposed) election victories.

Harris also is pulling ahead in national poll after poll with ratings of 50+ to 56+%, including in so-called ‘battleground’ states. Trump, who has fallen in poll after poll well below 50%, and in some polls below 40%, is failing. Attendance at her public appearances is larger than Trump’s and growing, while his are shrinking.

And he can not figure out why a white, sexist, pseudo-Christian, lying, racist, misogynistic, felonious, treasonous, multimillionaire megalomaniac is losing to a Black female. He shouldn’t be. In fact, he can’t be. It isn’t possible. Just ask him.

The answer, of course, is that the polls are fake. Everything that is positive about Kamala MUST be a fake, drummed up by the never-to-be-sufficiently-darned Deep State. /S

I do not want people who can not drive in 2D to crash into me in 3D.