Omni-Medium Plummeting Device
An important meme in our corpus is the omni-medium transport, a theoretical device we’re always pushing to a next level, even as milestone prototypes are possibly achieved.For example, the “flying car”, able to drive along highways, and take to the air, has made great strides and is now on the brink of mass industrial commercialization. But that leaves other media out of the equation: the water’s surface, and underwater. When will the floating bus become a sub?
The same floating bus is also able to take wing or drive up on land.
And even with all that, we could push further, taking her into outer space, perhaps to the Moon and back.
What we appreciate is that, wholly independently of the practicality of such a vehicle, merely contemplating its possibility, as a futuristic device, feeds our ability to think scientifically as well as mythopoetically.
The chariots of the gods and goddesses have always served as food for our relatively feeble imaginations. Our speculations regarding UAPs and what propels them, anti-gravity engines and so on, keeps our imaginations alive with possibilities and that in itself is a service we need, much as we need random number generators.
Science fiction is a shared social good, a repository of our hopes, our dreams, our nightmares, our paranoias.
Along these lines, I suggest a new Art category in this M4W Coda wherein we test out what we get around prompting for such an omni-medium transportation solution, as well as subsets thereof. It’s fine to focus on airplane-meets-car option, neglecting for the time being the mirroring water-underwater bus-sub option.
Yellow Submarine meets Further.
In tandem with fantastical AI generated and/or humanly contrived works of greatness, let us intersperse some of the working prototype examples. For example:
