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"Beyond a thousand years from now humans are not quite recognizably human, and I have trouble finding characters."
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The author modestly states that the one-passenger version was even smaller, but the two-passenger version was more popular.
Children of the Sixties readily recognize this idea as it was used in the Jetson's cartoon:
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