Yes, "marketing" was a poor word implying this will be for sale. It is however, as you stated, promotion of the university and the team.

While the project as a whole, the materials design and the car as a whole is absolutely fantastic, the carbon filtration part is a deliberate promotional gimmick that has no other academic or pratical purpose.

The statement by the team lead from the article: "We are cleaning the air while driving" and the fact that they put the filters in the car, most likely knowing they are just making it less efficient points to the idea that it was something done to catch attention (and was obviously successful to some degree). That is, of course, both an understandable and often necessary thing to do to promote the university etc.

I just wanted to remark on how pointless of an addition to the project car it is.

Inventing and innovating are two different things.

Innovation requires working knowledge in multiple, disparate fields of study, then using that knowledge to connect methods/ideas/resources that were not previously related.

You think the Apollo vehicles just showed up?

There were dozens of rocket launches before we tried putting humans in space, and all of them resulted in lessons learned and how to improve the next iteration.

The rockets themselves? Based on military-driven missile technology. The missiles could not deliver humans to and from space, but they were the unrelated starting point for putting people on the moon.

Note that I responded to a post where you chose to list 5 types of bike.

Flying cars aren't going to happen bro.

Auto decent or return to origin seems likely.

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They would be better off putting a peat bog in the trunk.

Also, I wonder how much CO2 is emitted manufacturing those CO2 filters...

Calling america an empire is wrong.

Clasical empires worked differently. All issues nowadays are the cause of capitalism combined with geopolitical meddling and Standards of livimf and wars.

America is in decline for no related reason compared to the roman empire.

Most people complain about the cost of living. Thats an issue even in russia and china.

Crime? Also present elsewhere.

Nationalism? Also present in china and russia.

Its not the america just in decline but the world economy. Capitalism is in decline.

The roman empire fell because of extreme issues and threats both within and externally. Not because owning slaves or some demographic issue.

Apparently there is overlap. This place is infested with doomers.

You mean western european. Eastern europeans dont have much luck there either.

Trans people being outlawed is nothing. 0.0002 of the population is nothing. 20-30 years sgo, it was taboo to be gay.

A country turning a bit conservative is not the end of the country.

The USA is a republic. I dont think they ever listened to the people. The people, especially in the US, are very dumb and uneducated.

Fsr right movements have always been a thing. I remember hoe things were in 2008 and before.

I heard about stormfront much earlier. The things are getting worse bullshit in the west prpves that democracy is a waste of time.

Its better to treat people like dumb sheep like china does and steamroll via police brute force.

The chinese arent pessimistic about the future at all. Turns out banning doomer posting works.

The US, hands down. I have no idea what you mean by “diminishing on the world stage.”

That triggers bad memories from GTA online with folks on flying motorcycles randomly attacking people.

So e.g. when people started innovating regarding the Apollo spacecraft, they said "let's try this idea that surely, by the laws of physics, cannot get us to the Moon"? That... doesn't make sense.

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Serbia is good but would be even better if US and EU wouldn't stinking up the place with their parasitic agendas and NATO pillaging Europe...

> The January 6 thing was a meme. In eastern europe, we get stuff like this every year.

Well, people actually claim asylum for being Albanian, so this is not exactly a flattering comparison.

Correct me if I’m wrong, Sandy, but aren’t SUVs located in countries?

The January 6 thing was a meme. In eastern europe, we get stuff like this every year.

In the worst case scensrio, america turns into myanmar and bombs who ever is against the military. A military dictatorship.

If things go bad in the United States expect a lot of the best and brightest to try to immigrate to Canada. They would be a welcome edition

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The Roman Empire fell over centuries for a multitude of reasons, some of which, however, we are seeing as similarities in the good ole American Empire. It’s not as far off as you make it seem, but given the minuscule amount of time we’ve existed by comparison it’s not a perfect comparison. I mean we did base a lot of our ideas off of the Romans

E vehicles

This is a hell of a lot cooler than a Segway. Nobody ever got laid riding one of those.

This seems like the logical next step towards a flying car. But there’s too many technical and safety issues to overcome, for this thing to ever be profitable.

The roman empire and america is like comparing a horse to a car.

According to right wingers, hedonism is the cause of the roman empire falling.

America should have collapsed when it fought a war vs slavery. Abolishing slavery was an act of hedonism.