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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Worst Industrial Disaster in History (1984)
The accidental release of methyl isocyanate gas from the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, immediately killed at least 3,000 people and ultimately caused 15,000 to 20,000 deaths. Another 500,000 survivors have since suffered ailments related to the disaster. The company paid $470 million in compensation to the victims, and several former employees were convicted of death by negligence in relation to the incident. Yet, it maintains that it is not to blame for the gas release.

This week in 2005 utee 94 created the Beer Thread,good work 94 - you get a Yuengling

THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

Worst Industrial Disaster in History (1984)
The accidental release of methyl isocyanate gas from the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, immediately killed at least 3,000 people and ultimately caused 15,000 to 20,000 deaths. Another 500,000 survivors have since suffered ailments related to the disaster. The company paid $470 million in compensation to the victims, and several former employees were convicted of death by negligence in relation to the incident. Yet, it maintains that it is not to blame for the gas release.

It's complicated.  The company I work for owns the remnants of UCC.  
That plant was 51% owned by UCC and 49% UCC-India.  So it was a JV.  If you believe company accounts, the way the poisonous  cloud was generated and released was done very deliberately.  Added to that, most of the deaths occurred in "shanty town" houses next to the plant.  Essentially a make-shift camp of poorly constructed, open air houses.  

Either way, a bad disaster.  We used to get emails about protesters etc but it seems to have died down.  

In the mid-1950s, Hiller Aircraft constructed a series of flying platforms for an Army-Navy program. The pilot simply leaned in the desired direction and the platform would follow. Hiller Aircraft incorporated twin counter-rotating propellers in a round housing (ducted fan). Sixty percent of the platform’s lift was generated by thrust from the counter-rotating propellers and 40% was generated by air moving over the ducted fan's leading edge

And yet we STILL don't have flying cars.

Any real development of flying cars would require a LOT of automation and  traffic/air space deconfliction unless you required every driver to get a pilot's license.

That could happen fairly soon, but I think it would always be better to have a plane or helo AND a separate car.

Wouldn't HAVE to be, I think.  As others have noted, to fly you have to use power to overcome gravity.

A buck private prolly had to tell the corporate brainiacs who created that thing that's it's easier to hit than a clay pidgeon.Wonder how much research and development coin went into that before Biff had to point that out

did ya ever hunt clay pigeons with a rifle?

Or see many scatter guns carried by the infantry?

no, my real name isn't Biff