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Posted by ntrainride on Thu Jul 30 08:39:30 2015 Nice visualization of heinleins concept. always liked the notion of adjacent, different speed belts leading to the seating area.
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Posted by NIMBYkiller on Thu Jul 30 09:56:39 2015, in response to The Roads Must Roll, posted by ntrainride on Thu Jul 30 08:39:30 2015. Interesting, thanks for posting |
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Posted by Alan Follett on Thu Jul 30 17:19:54 2015, in response to The Roads Must Roll, posted by ntrainride on Thu Jul 30 08:39:30 2015. And this preceded Heinlein's story by sixteen years or so. I wonder if RAH was aware of this or other similar real-world engineering proposals. He almost certainly would also have encountered a similar idea in H. G. Wells' 1899 novel /The Sleeper Awakes/.Alan Follett Hercules, CA |
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Posted by Jon Bell on Fri Jul 31 00:58:45 2015, in response to The Roads Must Roll, posted by ntrainride on Thu Jul 30 08:39:30 2015. IIRC Heinlein also had a diner on the innermost (fastest) belt. Must have been a nice trick keeping the silverware from flying at the turnaround loop. |
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Posted by ntrainride on Fri Jul 31 10:03:16 2015, in response to Re: The Roads Must Roll, posted by Jon Bell on Fri Jul 31 00:58:45 2015. Would have been something to see, road cities of moving beltways stretching across the landscape. He later writes of the "ruins" of the networks. |
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Posted by ntrainride on Fri Jul 31 12:39:57 2015, in response to Re: The Roads Must Roll, posted by Alan Follett on Thu Jul 30 17:19:54 2015. a more industrial era. so many factories and industrial processes used complicated systems of moving belts. "road cities" seems like a reasonal extrapolation of the potential that technology. |
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Posted by Andrew Saucci on Fri Jul 31 22:56:35 2015, in response to The Roads Must Roll, posted by ntrainride on Thu Jul 30 08:39:30 2015. I'm still waiting for my jet pack. |
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Posted by Avid Reader on Sat Aug 1 11:02:23 2015, in response to The Roads Must Roll, posted by ntrainride on Thu Jul 30 08:39:30 2015. Isaac Asimov used this concept in one of his "I Robot" Novels. |
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Posted by ntrainride on Sat Aug 1 12:23:15 2015, in response to Re: The Roads Must Roll, posted by Avid Reader on Sat Aug 1 11:02:23 2015. didn't know that. |
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Posted by Avid Reader on Sat Aug 1 17:16:29 2015, in response to Re: The Roads Must Roll, posted by Avid Reader on Sat Aug 1 11:02:23 2015. I wish I could remember the title.There wasn't a terribly large number of novels in the I Robot Series The segment involved a futurist type of "railfan" that would ride these conveyances, jumping from one speed to another speed with an unusual skill to the annoyance of regular commuters. |
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