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    Quote Originally Posted by eViLMunkey
    Also I'd move out of the Country since the economy is goin' to hell
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    Things I would rather buy than cars:
    -house/condo in Tokyo, maybe a couple somewhere else in Japan
    -house in London
    -house in Paris
    -house somewhere on the Mediterranean coast
    -pay for my own airship - not just a blimp, I mean one of the recently designed floating houses. lol
    -private plane
    -another four years in college to major in environmental sciences
    -buy my parents a Porsche Boxster for each of them
    -invest in a good solar panel producing company
    -all of my houses would be powered completely by themselves: solar power, wind power, geothermal, etc.
    -pay tuition for Lara's grad school
    -after we are done with school, then we would take a never ending trip around the globe

    Screw cars.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jecht
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    -pay for my own airship - not just a blimp, I mean one of the recently designed floating houses. lol
    FAIL.


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    Quote Originally Posted by admin
    FAIL.

    Umm... no. The reason old airships would catch fire so easily is because:
    1. They released the hydrogen into the atmosphere to go up and down rather than compressing it into tanks
    2. They had a flammable coating on the outside
    3. Generally bad design

    Most of the issues have been worked out. Aka don't vent flammable gases into the atmosphere where it can catch fire and don't use a flammable coating on the outside of the ship.

    Airships are making a comeback, there are a lot of designs out there that use very little fossil fuels and can carry a couple hundred tons of cargo. With fossil fuels growing more expensive all the time, it is very likely that air ships will be used again soon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jecht
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    Screw cars.
    Whatever.

    I'd have

    1. Ayrton Senna McLaren Honda MP4/4
    2. Ferrari 312 PB
    3. Bugatti Royale
    4. Emerson Fittapaidi's 1972 Lotus 72
    5. 1983 Porsche 962
    6. Porsche 917 from movie "Le mans"
    7. Juha Kankkunen's 1985 Peuguet 205 Group B
    8. 1992 Klaus Ludwig Mercedes DTM car
    9. 1933 Alfa Romeo 2300 Mille Miglia
    10. 1966 Ferrari 330 P3

    That all comes out to north of $100,000,000 and i still need 10 race bikes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jecht
    x2

    Things I would rather buy than cars:
    -house/condo in Tokyo, maybe a couple somewhere else in Japan
    -house in London
    -house in Paris
    -house somewhere on the Mediterranean coast
    -pay for my own airship - not just a blimp, I mean one of the recently designed floating houses. lol
    -private plane
    -another four years in college to major in environmental sciences
    -buy my parents a Porsche Boxster for each of them
    -invest in a good solar panel producing company
    -all of my houses would be powered completely by themselves: solar power, wind power, geothermal, etc.
    -pay tuition for Lara's grad school
    -after we are done with school, then we would take a never ending trip around the globe

    Screw cars.

    Private plane? lol... You mean a Cessna ? lol ,... I think you will run out 1/2 way down your list .

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