# Pointless Jetsons question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-jetsons-question/457191>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 20, 2008, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-jetsons-question/457191 "2008-07-20T22:41:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-jetsons-question/457191/21 "2008-07-21T15:00:26Z")

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Did you all watch the clip of the open? Orbit High School isn’t even on stilts! It’s _in orbit_, man!

I sort of thought they were all in outer space. And if you’ve got flying cars, you don’t want to go on the ground! The ground’s for squares.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-jetsons-question/457191/22 "2008-07-21T17:10:55Z")

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Check out the [“Future City”](http://davidszondy.com/future/city/futurecity.htm) section of David Szondy’s website, “Tales of Future Past.” Much of the visionary technomania of the early-to-mid-20th Century implicitly assumed Progress involved putting more and more distance between technocivilized human beings and messy, dirty old Nature. Some envisioned future cities include giant self-sufficient buildings which the inhabitants never leave for weeks at a stretch. Some are built so high the ground is barely even visible from the elevated freeways or interbuilding ramps. Some cities float in the air like Laputa.

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**Author:** ![Will\_Repair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a698b9/32.png) [@Will\_Repair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Will_Repair)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pointless-jetsons-question/457191/23 "2008-07-21T17:23:50Z")

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[QUOTE=DrFidelius]  
Does Fred know about this affair?  
[/QUOTE]

:smack: Jane! (or was it Weezie?)

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