Where have the mavericks gone?

[thinfourth2]

Looking at the world today we don't appear to have anyone really pushing the boundrys of what is possible in a big way.

We don't have goverment funded loonys flinging themselves at stupidly higher and higher speeds through the air, we don't folk jumping off weather balloons, we don't have huge leaps in engineering, we don't have the spirit of the Apollo program.

The only thing of note of the past decade is the x-prize

So where are they and if we don't have them why not

[marshalla]

elf 'n' safety.
emphasis on passing exams through conformity and no reward for imagination and creativity.
culture of everything being someone else's responsibility.
excessive use of t'interweb instead of working things out for oneself.

[Tim.s]

Dunno, we have Fienes (spelling?) and Branson.

And of course -

[Overhaulin]

Perhaps they get some press but not enough.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/aug/21/aero...

http://www.spacejump.co.uk/world_record.htm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/glouces...

[Mr E]

Talk to me goose.

[Motorrad]

Some revolutionary stuff going on here, did you miss it?

http://public.web.cern.ch/public/

[Tim.s]

Watch for the canopy.

[andrew_huxtable]

on wednesday a nutter is going to jump off the white cliffs of dover with one of those wing things but this one has 4 or 5 jets on it(as you can tell i have not got a clue as to the name of this device) and he is going to attempt to fly to france

its live on national geographic at 12

Edited by andrew_huxtable on Saturday 20th September 10:48

[SS HSV]

andrew_huxtable said:

on wednesday a nutter is going to jump off the white cliffs of dover with one of those wing things but this one has 4 or 5 jets on it(as you can tell i have not got a clue as to the name of this device) and he is going to attempt to fly to france

its live on national geographic at 12

Edited by andrew_huxtable on Saturday 20th September 10:48

It maybe live on national geographic at 12 but he will be dead on the BBC by 1

[chris_w666]

Here they are.

HTH

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w3ku2QArT0

[ewenm]

Motorrad said:

Some revolutionary stuff going on here, did you miss it?

http://public.web.cern.ch/public/

That was my first thought too...

[A8VIP]

Tim.s said:

Dunno, we have Fienes....

What's he been in lately?

[wargriff]

A8VIP said:

Tim.s said:

Dunno, we have Fienes....

What's he been in lately?

think he's in Alex Kingston most nights

[BoRED S2upid]

We still have all the things you mentioned, they have that rediculous thing in Switzerland thats trying to recreate the big bang (But is broken) you have that Alain Robidoux free climbing up buildings, talking of which in Dubai that are breaking the boundaries in building.