..Imagine the future

dee1949
dee1949 Posts: 1,425
edited October 2010 in The Clubhouse
....with thousands of these being flown by drunks. Imagine 20,000 of these every morning buzzing your house with people late for work. Can't wait.

http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpps/news/commercial-jetpack-looks-to-take-flight%C2%BF-dpgoh-20101005-fc_9953709
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  • mudwrx
    mudwrx Posts: 367
    edited October 2010
    "Umm...Hello, boss? Ya, I'm gonna be late again today. Yup, uh-huh. That's right. I got stuck in that tree again."
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  • ryanjoachim
    ryanjoachim Posts: 2,046
    edited October 2010
    I'd buy one.
    MrNightly wrote: »
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,953
    edited October 2010
    I'd buy one if the price was 5 g's. I just have to ask...what do you do if you have to pee ??
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited October 2010
    dee1949 wrote: »
    ....with thousands of these being flown by drunks.

    That's a dark place to go.... hooray optimism!
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,516
    edited October 2010
    No way will the FAA allow anything like this to fly freely over the USofA skies.
    If...
    Ron dislikes a film = go out and buy it.
    Ron loves a film = don't even rent.
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,516
    edited October 2010
    Oh, and they need to make it a lot smaller. Give me a gyrocopter (like the one in The Road Warrior) any day over that...and for much, much less.
    If...
    Ron dislikes a film = go out and buy it.
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited October 2010
    Ron-P wrote: »
    No way will the FAA allow anything like this to fly freely over the USofA skies.

    You can fly ultralites with fairly minimal restriction. I don't do it but a friend does.
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

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  • fossy
    fossy Posts: 1,378
    edited October 2010
    tonyb wrote: »
    I'd buy one if the price was 5 g's. I just have to ask...what do you do if you have to pee ??

    there will be a tax on that young man !!!!!!!!
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,953
    edited October 2010
    fossy wrote: »
    there will be a tax on that young man !!!!!!!!

    LOL!! Pal, It's been 30 years since someone called me a "young man".:D
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,516
    edited October 2010
    madmax wrote: »
    You can fly ultralites with fairly minimal restriction. I don't do it but a friend does.

    I'm going to guess that it depends on where. Over LA?
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  • messiah
    messiah Posts: 1,790
    edited October 2010
    It would really suck to run out of gas. :eek:
    "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
    Benjamin Franklin, February 17th, 1775.

    "The day that I have to give up my constitutional rights AND let some dude rub my junk...well, let's just say that it's gonna be a real bad day for the dude trying to rub my junk!!"
    messiah, November 23rd, 2010
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  • dee1949
    dee1949 Posts: 1,425
    edited October 2010
    ....i am sure "ULTRA" high clearance to buy and get a license for one of these in the near future. But "IMAGINE" in a peaceful WORLD. The "Jetson"s".....it's "COMING"!!!

    What's another Century or two!!!!!

    Don't "WORRY" !!! BEEEEE "HAPPeeeee"!!!!
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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited October 2010
    I wouldn't want to fly one of those things in my neck of the woods. Might get ventilated
    I refuse to argue with idiots, because people can't tell the DIFFERENCE!
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited October 2010
    Ron is absolutely right by the way. No way that EVER flies in the US. Between "safety" concerns and airspace restrictions.... it just ain't happenin'.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • mdaudioguy
    mdaudioguy Posts: 5,165
    edited October 2010
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    Ron is absolutely right by the way. No way that EVER flies in the US. Between "safety" concerns and airspace restrictions.... it just ain't happenin'.

    I'd bet the military might be interested, though.
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  • cstmar01
    cstmar01 Posts: 4,424
    edited October 2010
    now if it could just be powered off of human gas (farting) I think we would be golden.... :D

    save the enviro one nacho at a time.
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