Cool, its Aliens.
Cool an F-111.
I think bucket seats were around before the late 60s, but they really became popular in the late 60s.
Whoops, I knew it was inevitable that I would put a success in the failure thread.
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We had a 1964 Dart (we inherited it from a family member in the mid 1980s) with the same transmission and no seatbelts. I also remember there was no padding at all on the dashboard, it was solid steel. I’m guessing the car probably also didn’t have crumple zones or a steering wheel designed to collapse if a human body hit it.
I can’t believe I drove that thing on the highway.
The entire car was a crumple zone. There was a show on Discovery or sime such channel about the history of car safety. They showed an early 60’s sedan running into a telephone pole. The pole didn’t budge and sliced through nearly the entire car. The car stopped with the pole in the trunk area.
I once drove a 1974 VW Super Beetle on I-95 at speeds of about 80mph. What the hell was I thinking?
On early Turbo-Hydromatic (i.e, GM) automatics, the steering column stick shift would read:
P N D S L R
The 1964 Pontiac Bonneville being a prime example. Imagine wanting to downshift to low as the road pitches down a deep grade and overreaching a notch. Ow.
IIRC, the Aston Martin Lagonda was another duff car with a push button gearchange 
The whole not bathing thing turned out to be a failure. Who’d a guessed?
Also, it turns out that Sex with Dolphins is contraindicated.
Interferon is still used in the treatment of Hepatitis C. In fact, it’s still the only treatment. They’ve tweaked the formula to make it a cocktail of pegylated (whatever that means) interferon with ribavirin, which has a better success rate than interferon alone. Actually, interferon alone had a poor success rate while it was making people feel sicker than a dog. They’ve got it up over 50% now with the ribavirin added, last I heard.
My parents’ house was built in 1967. One wall in the kitchen is home to a built-in toaster.
Built-in everything was all the rage in the 1960s, extending beyond the kitchen to the living and family room. Anyone remember built-in televisions and stereos?
Didn’t mean to follow up my own post, but there were multimedia magazines like Aspen - released as a box filled with text articles and essays, records, art, and so on.
They had interlocks on the mechanism that locked out those buttons when the car was moving more that a mile per hour or two. The big reason they failed was they were more expensive to produce (lots of cables and teeny parts) and they weren’t a noticeable sales advantage over conventional column shifters.
Interferon is still used to arrest the development of chronic myeloid leukemia.
My wife had CML and I injected her pretty little butt with 10 million units of interferon every night for years. She was one of the guinea pigs for the first trials of STI-571, a drug that became the first successful tyrosine kinase inhibitor, imatinib mesylate (Gleevec).
It pretty much failed, unless you’re in favor of armies with poor discipline and morale.
Apparently they didn’t stop experimenting on Zombies in the 60s.
The Wiki on interferon seems to list about fourteen uses, so yeah… not exactly a failure.
It pretty much failed, unless you’re in favor of armies with poor discipline and low morale.
There was the Harrad Experiment.
In the modern world, experimenting with posting from a phone has been a tragic failure for some folks.
They still have this, except they call it the Internet now.