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Very cool although the parachute backup looks like a rough landing...
1 posted on 08/17/2013 11:16:49 AM PDT by virgil283
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To: virgil283
Jet pack
2 posted on 08/17/2013 11:19:23 AM PDT by virgil283 (When the sun spins, the cross appears, and the skies burn red)
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Altitude is not your friend, and quiet is very, very bad.


3 posted on 08/17/2013 11:20:59 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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Propeller blade separation might make one lose their head............


4 posted on 08/17/2013 11:21:55 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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Those would be great for commuters.


8 posted on 08/17/2013 11:29:08 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (People are idiots.)
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So now we’ll be able to physically kick illegal drone spies out of the skies. Cool.


9 posted on 08/17/2013 11:29:16 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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Great, now where’s my basement nuclear power plant that’s the size of a cooler and my George Jetson flying car-in-a-briefcase?


10 posted on 08/17/2013 11:29:39 AM PDT by bigbob
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Which would you rather drive, this:

or this:


11 posted on 08/17/2013 11:39:09 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (People are idiots.)
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Here’s one that makes ya a “human cruise missile”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7LyFtOj1k0


12 posted on 08/17/2013 11:46:28 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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I saw one in use back in the sixties. A “pilot” flew over into a stadium from an adjacent parking lot.

It was a short but very loud trip!


14 posted on 08/17/2013 11:58:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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Thing weighs over 500 pounds! You’re not going to even move it without a forklift. Not exactly a “suit.”


17 posted on 08/17/2013 12:16:28 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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I need one


18 posted on 08/17/2013 12:20:25 PM PDT by Democrat_media (IRS rigged election for Obama and democrats by shutting down tea party)
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To: virgil283

A ducted fan (fanny pack??) is just not as elegant nor as cool as a jet pack.


19 posted on 08/17/2013 12:21:02 PM PDT by Flick Lives (We're going to be just like the old Soviet Union, but with free cell phones!)
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How would I go about securing it in the parking lot at my office?

Or would I need to cable lock it to a pillar so some fool didn’t decide to chuck it in the back of his truck and abscond with it?

Otherwise, I’m in... right after I get an extra $100K or so.


20 posted on 08/17/2013 12:29:12 PM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( Obama is the Rachel Jeantel of US Presidents ))))
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I saw the jet pack guy flying around the Houston Astrodome in 1965, it sure is taking it’s time moving to public availability.


23 posted on 08/17/2013 1:23:22 PM PDT by ansel12 ( The difference between libertarianism and conservatism is radical social leftism, not economics)
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And what about my flying car?

At this point, I'd settle for that $20 waterproof carboard bicycle we're supposed to have by now.

25 posted on 08/17/2013 1:35:53 PM PDT by x
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