Every six months or so we try that Paul Moller ’s flying motorcar is just a few years away ! Too sorry we ’ve been hearing that for the past 40 eld .
Moller is back in the news this week after start acrowdfunding campaignto get his flying car off the ground . But do not — I repeat , do not — give this guy any of your money .
The ill-famed Moller has spent the last 40 yearslosing ridiculous amount of money of moneyfor investor in flying railroad car schemes that do n’t work . The SEC even went after him back in 2003 forissuing fraudulent breed . Thanks to new internet tools and morelax ordinance , delusional businessman like Moller have a passel more leeway to fleece the public these years — provided they give a disclaimer .
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So below I offer a humble list — 17 better way to spend your severely - earned $ 25 than giving it to Paul Moller ’s futile flying car movement .
Light five $ 5 bills on fire
bear a student from the local artistic production school to eviscerate you a fly motorcar
sate a tubful with 2,500 centime and make your left over pes finger like Scrooge McDuck
sink a $ 25 Blockbuster gift calling card in a time capsule
grease one’s palms 50 glass of lemonade from your local lemonade standstill ( 25 Methedrine if you last in a ritzy vicinity )
Take a friend to the showhouse and see a novel question picture
Donate tovictims of Typhoon Haiyan
fuddle 25 singles off a improbable building
Throw 25 singles off a little construction
Eat 100 fourth because then they ’ll be a part of you constantly
Makebreakfast sandwich
Send your mom flower
Send your dad flowers
Send yourself flowers
Buy like 1/13th of a bitcoin
Pay someone to tell you what a bitcoin is and why anyone would incommode purchase one
Do literally anything that does n’t involve yield Paul Moller money
The media keep perpetuating this myth that Moller is so close to wreak us the world of fly car that people have been dreaming about for over a century . The newspaper headline , “ Places you may have visit us , ” is featured prominently on his crowdfunding page because it ’s the only matter that lends his speculation any believability . So I beg the medium to stop .
check pose him on TV , asCBS This Morningrecently did . Stop saying that Moller ’s flying car is “ channelise to market within five long time ” like it ’s a foregone conclusion . Stop saying that even though it “ sounds like the stuff of skill fiction , ” Moller will “ make it a world . ” stop over feign like all Moller needs is justone last million dollarsto make all our dreams derive true .
It ’s entirely possible that someone might one day bring an affordable fly car to marketplace . But Paul Moller will not be the one to do it .
In the meantime , I can cerebrate of quite a few better ways to expend your money than a “ flexible support ” ( that means he keeps the money even if it does n’t make the goal of $ 958,000 ) crowdfunding campaign run by a man who has disappointed far too many generations of retro - future swot like myself . To the art schooltime !
Image : Paul Moller in his Skycar circa 1999 via Getty Images
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