Global reach, global destruction
Posted on 12/03/2001 4:17:56 PM PST by spycatcher
No! It's the urban idiot tree hugging liberal vehicle. Be honest. Would you be caught dead on this thing? I wouldn't.
FYI, I'll explain how it works for you before you go making a fool of yourself. Special Forces are in all the branches of the military, which all fall under the Dept of Defense. There all have procurement people that evaluate promising technology for them to use. Anyone in or out of the military should know that. No need to point out imagined "discrepancies" to make yourself look petty.
Sorry bro...but you said the Special Forces were interested.
Department of Defense procurement poags are not the same thing.
They were your words....not Time's.
2) I figured you would catch my error in my over simplification. If the balance wheel's rake is perpendicular to the ground, unless the wheel is turned in the direction you're rotating, it will just drag, however, if you introduce a bit of rake (think chopper) then the wheel will pivot on its own in the correct direction. On a car it's called caster and is the reason your steering wheel returns to the center when you make a turn, providing the alignment is correct.
3) This monstrous "appendage" can be replaced with something you probably use every week, a castor. Best known as the wobbling front wheels of a shopping cart. What are they, maybe an inch longer than the diameter of the wheel itself?
4) Before you mention it, if you only used one caster and you leaned into the direction opposite the castor, you'd fall over so you put one on the front and one on the back and hopefully make them of better quality materials than the ones on the shopping carts I always seem to always pick.
5) The ability to turn in its own radius is worth $3000?
6) I'm not knocking the impressive technology but it seems a waste for what is in essence a scooter, albeit one you stand up on.
Stay Safe !
The only people in DoD who will approve purchases for Special Forces are those dedicated to Special Forces procurement. In this case, few people were allowed to see the device and quantities are limited, so DoD most likely sent *only* representatives from Special Forces procurement.
The Special Forces are interested in almost anything - high or low tech -- that helps them move and do their job. Quiet is preferable to noisy. Horses, skis, motorcycles and obviously a future military version of this. I don't know how that would surprise anyone that's ever worn a uniform.
Put it this way, if our SpecOps people weren't interested in stuff like this, they would be no better than Marine grunts.
It's not perfect, but neither was the Wright Bros plane, or the first bike with a motor on it. This is much more advanced and now other companies will try to copy and improve on the design. Future versions from DEKA will probably have sterling engines for added power and range
~smile~
Well well...
Now I see...
...you are a Liberal bed wetter arent you?
Hahaha...
I had just taken for granted that you were honestly off base but no....you are a sap cakeboy huh?
How foolish of me to have been believing the best...that you were simply a weak minded conservative who had been duped by Mr. Kaymen [a professed enviromentalist and democrat] and the likes of Time magazine & ABC's Good Morning America.
Perhaps you could show us all the virtuous pros of being a blowhard putz who weaves in and out of his skewed language bent on driving home the endless possibilities of a liberal fantasy versus one of the US Marines attached to the 15 MEU/SOC [Grunts] currently positioned outside of Kandahar Risking their lives to defend our nation?
:o)
Those little $50 scooters you can buy at the drug store are "cooler" than this thing and problably a lot safer. And you don't have to recharge them. You just stop and have a hamburger and it's refueled.
This is not the "steamship" Mr. Fulton. This is not the wheel being reinvented. This is a piece of crap that is getting a lot of media hype. This is a pet rock on wheels. When it blows over it will be as dead as Enron.
Who you callin' "nobody", son?
I've got a bad knee, bad ankles, bad back, bad neck, and bad heart. Walking is something I do when I have to, as little as I have to, and I generally regret it, and pay for it in pain, exhaustion, and sweat. Running is something I do if life depends on it (or when my wife yells that her purse has been stolen in the store-mart), and I do pay for it, in spades.
Could I use one of these "toys"? Damn straight I could. It could put the fun back into hunting and fishing. Enough, in fact, that I'd start hunting and fishing again. It could also take the hell out of going to my barn, or my garden.
I can't quite get a handle on the amount of venom I'm seeing in the "ginger" threads. It's strange. I mean, I'd expect a certain amount of "I'd like one", and "I can't see how I'd need one", but the amount of sheer bile expressed here is astounding.
Remind me never to share any ideas I've got for products or services here, OK?
I just dont see it having a great big affect on my earning capacity, relationships, ability to find a good deal on material items or stay informed or share my opinion or research a paper.....like oh..say, the internet has.
Global reach, global destruction
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