Projects you wish hadn't been cancelled.

[rossmum]

Mine?
http://members.shaw.ca/b.bogdan/Arrow/Avro_Arrow.jpg
1. The Avro Canada Arrow. Decades ahead of its time, it could fly at over Mach 2 when most regular-service American aircraft were still struggling to reach 1.5 (this of course changed with the advent of the F-15, but that's another story). It was so advanced that it would've really put Canada's air force on the map even in small numbers, but alas it was fucking CANCELLED. Lose.

http://members.fortunecity.co.uk/colinspictures/images/aircraft/lightning/s001_098.jpg
2. The English Electric Lightning. Similar story to the Arrow, though the Lightning did enjoy a brief service time with the RAF. Why was it cancelled? Because some moron in the government thought manned fighters were obsolete. In the fucking 70s. Nice prediction, asshole. http://thereaperman.com/xbh/Smileys/default/emot-argh.gif

Might post more later. In the meantime, post anything you wish wasn't cancelled (civil or military projects), not TV shows.

[Hotrod]

I agree with you on the Avro Canada Arrow, it was (and still is) the coolest plane in my opinion. Do video games count? Because i was disappointed to hear that StarCraft : Ghost was canceled.

[Masterz1337]

Day break TV show.

[Stealth]

Mine, steam cell research, and I bet you know why, well half of why I wish it wasn't cancelled.

[DaneO'Roo]

Futurama :(

[stalker 4589]

Phantom.

M.U.G.E.N (not so much cancelled as died :( )

[Con]

edit: (http://springfieldfiles.com/sounds/homer/platypusman.mp3) avro arrow mmmkay

[rossmum]

(civil or military projects).
Guys... TV shows aren't civil or military projects. They're entertainment. Difference.

[Hotrod]

i don't see the (civil or military projects) anywhere. Could you show me where it is?

[rossmum]

Try reading the first post. :rolleyes:

[Con]

Maybe you should've made it a more distinguished point, rather than putting it in the English Electric Lighting paragraph; something I wouldn't read since it sounded a bit boring.

[rossmum]

Line-break got screwed in C&P, thanks for spotting that.

[SnaFuBAR]

there's a whole lot of jackasses on this forum.

[Hotrod]

Opps, I didn't see it that (don't know why, I read the first post twice). Well I guess that my only choice now is the Avro Canada Arrow, what an amazing plane it was...

[Con]

there's a whole lot of jackasses on this forum.
no u

[Corgy]

Project MKULTRA

[Con]

Project MKULTRA

Holy crap, I thought all that mind-control stuff was BS, and that your gov't would never try something like that. :lol:

[stalker 4589]

wow i thought it was a mortal kombat game with the name MK ULTRA but i just googled it. ahh conspiracys


On the Senate floor in 1977, Senator Ted Kennedy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kennedy) said:
The Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over thirty universities and institutions were involved in an 'extensive testing and experimentation' program which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens 'at all social levels, high and low, native Americans and foreign.' Several of these tests involved the administration of LSD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSD) to 'unwitting subjects in social situations.' At least one death, that of Dr. Olson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson), resulted from these activities. The Agency itself acknowledged that these tests made little scientific sense. The agents doing the monitoring were not qualified scientific observe :S

[Stealth]

ya, mind control is full of BS, I'd invest into something better for the people then that, like maybe cybernetics something that can help some people regain their legs, and walk, or even something like the MC for the military.

[stalker 4589]

if they made a MC he could be enhanced with cybernetics :D :D.

btw sealth the "hey you with the hair" quote happend to me about 4 times a month in my school

[rossmum]

wow i thought it was a mortal kombat game with the name MK ULTRA but i just googled it. ahh conspiracys


On the Senate floor in 1977, Senator Ted Kennedy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kennedy) said:
The Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over thirty universities and institutions were involved in an 'extensive testing and experimentation' program which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens 'at all social levels, high and low, native Americans and foreign.' Several of these tests involved the administration of LSD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSD) to 'unwitting subjects in social situations.' At least one death, that of Dr. Olson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson), resulted from these activities. The Agency itself acknowledged that these tests made little scientific sense. The agents doing the monitoring were not qualified scientific observe :S
The British Army tested the effects of LSD on soldiers in the late 60s/early 70s (I think) and recorded a video of it. I've seen it, it was pretty funny. They were meant to assault a bunker, and ended up sitting in trees outside it feeding the birds. :lol:

Another cancelled project:

Large-scale aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy. Apparently the same idiot who cancelled the Lightning also figured there'd be no need for aircraft carriers in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Oh how wrong he was.

[Stealth]

if they made a MC he could be enhanced with cybernetics :D :D.
:p now see how much better then mind control that is?

btw sealth the "hey you with the hair" quote happend to me about 4 times a month in my school
:p I haven't used that joke for over 2 years, and it was mostly over the summer because I had really short hair and people thought I was bald.:lol:

Large-scale aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy. Apparently the same idiot who cancelled the Lightning also figured there'd be no need for aircraft carriers in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Oh how wrong he was.
How wrong he was, lol, I remember reading one one that some one was planing on making a carrier out of ice.

[stalker 4589]

carrier out of ice. :S so confused.

[Hotrod]

A carrier out of ice... what a weird idea. If that guy was thinking a bit, he would realize that it would melt due to the heat, and it wouldn't be able to move.

[rossmum]

How wrong he was, lol, I remember reading one one that some one was planing on making a carrier out of ice.
Yeah. Pykrete (a mix of ice and sawdust) is actually stronger than concrete and it floats easily since ice is less dense than water. The Brits and possibly Americans (can't remember exactly) were researching it for use on carriers and battleships, but I don't think it ever eventuated into a Pykrete-armoured ship.

[stalker 4589]

the idea sounds rediuclos. i mean yeah lets build a carrier out of frozen water and wood. :S but if it works then wow smart people wioth possible to much time on there hands.

wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete
wierd site http://www.combinedops.com/Pykrete.htm

im gunna try this :D

[Con]

wouldn't the ship just...melt?

[rossmum]

Apparently it didn't. I don't know how; but I suspect that they may have added something to the ice to prevent that.

[Hotrod]

What do you know of that stops ice from melting (besides the cold)?

[stalker 4589]

Sawdust.......


basically the compostion of 14% sawdust and 86% ice creates a slower melting point in the ice and with the tempreture of the see it would be completly possible to build a boat that would survivve a jounry out of prytek

[Hotrod]

Still, with all the heat from all the jet's engines and the ships engines would make it melt quite fast anyways, right?

[stalker 4589]

hmm yes but if there was some insane cooling methords for the engine then it could still be possible

[Hotrod]

Well, it would have been less expensive to make a normal carrier instead of a ice carrier with insane cooling methods.

[stalker 4589]

not really i mean. to make it its water + paper+ fridgefrezzer = prytek

[rossmum]

Still, with all the heat from all the jet's engines and the ships engines would make it melt quite fast anyways, right?
Carrier-borne jets weren't in service in the mid 1940s. As for the other factors, I'm sure they'd prevent it somehow. It's likely only the hull and possibly the deck would be Pykrete, with metal elsewhere.

Aside from that, you've got to remember that the northern Atlantic, the Baltic and the Arctic Circle are VERY cold.

[Stealth]

ya, I was kind of confused when I read up on it, but then again, why not, I think it'd be a funny thing to see happen.

[rossmum]

Not for the Germans, had they ever met them in combat.

[Stealth]

lol, poor Germans.

[n00b1n8R]

did the canadian military not take up that MC suit? if not then FUCK THEM >:-/

[rossmum]

No, if they did it'd be stupid. While it might have appeared perfect, they'd need to run all sorts of tests to ensure its suitability before they could even consider putting it into service.

[n00b1n8R]

and have they even considerd it?

don't milaterys use vehicles from contractors all the time anyways?

[Rob Oplawar]

Apollo. The space shuttle (most beautiful machine ever conceived by man).

Ah well, the purpose of each lives on in Orion (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/orion/index.html). Back to the moon by 2016! lol, wasn't Bush saying off to mars by 2025 a few years ago? Asshole promised expansion of the space program and instead cut funding from NASA in order to stage 9/11.

edit: lol, somehow i missed pages 2-5, i didn't notice this discussion about pykrete carriers. It's an interesting idea, but even if it didn't melt, I'd figure it would be pretty high maintennace, especially for a "ship" big enough to carry aircraft.
(http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/orion/index.html)

[rossmum]

and have they even considerd it?

don't milaterys use vehicles from contractors all the time anyways?
Yeah... after years of extensive testing and modification.


Apollo. The space shuttle (most beautiful machine ever conceived by man).

Ah well, the purpose of each lives on in Orion (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/orion/index.html). Back to the moon by 2016! lol, wasn't Bush saying off to mars by 2025 a few years ago? Asshole promised expansion of the space program and instead cut funding from NASA in order to stage 9/11.

edit: lol, somehow i missed pages 2-5, i didn't notice this discussion about pykrete carriers. It's an interesting idea, but even if it didn't melt, I'd figure it would be pretty high maintennace, especially for a "ship" big enough to carry aircraft.

Funny you should mention Orion, actually. It was also brought up in the original thread on my own forums.

[CN3089]

did the canadian military not take up that MC suit? if not then FUCK THEM >:-/


Of course not. Why would they? It's stupid.




Also, screw the Avro Arrow. If we had built them what would we have used them for? Nothing. They would have been a waste of money. http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c251/CN3089/Emoticons/emot-colbert.gif

[rossmum]

Think of the export potential though. Considering how advanced it was, it could've fetched quite a price, and doubtless there would be plenty of possible customers.

[Corgy]

Holy crap, I thought all that mind-control stuff was BS, and that your gov't would never try something like that. :lol:
Whose government?

[rossmum]

Don't try and hide it Corgy, we know what you kiwis have been up to over there with your sheep and your mind control... http://sa.tweek.us/emots/images/emot-argh.gif

[Corgy]

We don't even believe in Nuclear fucking Power.

[Limited]

Top gear
:(

[stalker 4589]

as in the TV show it never got cancelled. just the end of this season it will be back in the summer

[Pooky]

the idea sounds rediuclos. i mean yeah lets build a carrier out of frozen water and wood. :S

Yeah and let's also generate electricity by having a crapload of tiny fast moving particles collide in a small room. What a load of bullshit right? Don't reject new ideas too easily. As for cancelled projects, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Crackers

[Limited]

as in the TV show it never got cancelled. just the end of this season it will be back in the summer
BBC has said it got axed..

[stalker 4589]

no the women said staight after the prgram top gear returns in summer.

and theres also a top gear of the pops on tv soon for comic relife

[Zeph]

The carrier out of ice was indeed water mixed with sawdust. It was next to impossible to break. The mock carrier that was made to test the idea in large scale survived torpedoes with little damage, where metal ships would have died.

For those asking it it would melt: It took nearly two years to melt enough so it would sink.

[TeeKup]

The British Army tested the effects of LSD on soldiers in the late 60s/early 70s (I think) and recorded a video of it. I've seen it, it was pretty funny. They were meant to assault a bunker, and ended up sitting in trees outside it feeding the birds. :lol:

Another cancelled project:

Large-scale aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy. Apparently the same idiot who cancelled the Lightning also figured there'd be no need for aircraft carriers in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Oh how wrong he was.

Now that you mention it, I wonder what it would be like if the UK had Nimitz Class Super Carriers like the U.S.:raise:

[Limited]

Now that you mention it, I wonder what it would be like if the UK had Nimitz Class Super Carriers like the U.S.:raise:
:D We have 3 and probably 3 is enough really.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/HMS_Invincible_%28R05%29.jpg/180px-HMS_Invincible_%28R05%29.jpg

heh

Is Nimitz like crazy big, bigger than invincible?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Principe-de-Asturias_Wasp_Forrestal_Invincible_1991_DN-ST-92-01129s.jpg/800px-Principe-de-Asturias_Wasp_Forrestal_Invincible_1991_DN-ST-92-01129s.jpg

Guess which 2 are american :D:D

[TeeKup]

Its called a super carrier for a reason. Its top deck can hold 30 aircraft. American carriers dont have a curved bow. :hyper:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimitz_class_aircraft_carrier

Normally when a world crisis breaks out, the first question asked is:

"Where are the carriers?":lol:

On future weapons a few nights ago, it was voted as the #1 weapon that has influenced and changed the world.

[CN3089]

:D We have 3 and probably 3 is enough really.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/HMS_Invincible_%28R05%29.jpg/180px-HMS_Invincible_%28R05%29.jpg

heh

Is Nimitz like crazy big, bigger than invincible?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Principe-de-Asturias_Wasp_Forrestal_Invincible_1991_DN-ST-92-01129s.jpg/800px-Principe-de-Asturias_Wasp_Forrestal_Invincible_1991_DN-ST-92-01129s.jpg

Guess which 2 are american :D:D

Except the 2 American ones are an amphibious assault ship and a decommissioned Forrestal-class. The Nimitz-class ships are much bigger. The British one behind them all is a light carrier, STOVL only, as far as I know (the front one is a Spanish ship).

[rossmum]

The Forrestal was one of the first US super-carriers, and the other is indeed an assault ship (the 'carrier' in San Andreas is modeled after one of these, they're much smaller). The farthest ship from the camera is the HMS Invincible, one of very few remaining British carriers... most or all of which are too small for anything like the F-14, F/A-18, S-3, F-4, etc. to effectively operate from. They're used for Harriers, mostly.

Nimitz eats the lot of them for breakfast in terms of size and capacity.

[nooBBooze]

Halogen.

[rossmum]

For the last time:

This thread is not about cancelled movies/TV shows/mods/games/books/anything of that sort.

[Limited]

For the last time:

This thread is not about cancelled movies/TV shows/mods/games/books/anything of that sort.
Ok Ok relax, you didnt actually specify that in the first post, until your edit :D

I'm upset they were going to cancel the plymouth nuclear ship yard :(

[nooBBooze]

um.. the electric car mb?
*ducks*