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  • J Joe Woodbury

    "It is capable of traveling 30 miles in 30 minutes on a full tank of fuel." It goes 1 mph? Methinks there are multiple mixed up quotes in there. Brain freeze moment. It's 60 mph with no crumple zones. I have visions of Mr. Rocketbelt slamming into a highway sign and dropping onto the pavement below. And who's going to clean up the bodies that fall on your house?

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    Joe Woodbury wrote:

    And who's going to clean up the bodies that fall on your house?

    Yeah, I wonder how it ensures that the pilot (I was going to say "user" but that word just scares me when I consider how incompetent users can be) lands before the fuel runs out. When gas in a car runs out, you slow down and stop. When you run out of fuel in a jet pack, do you just fall down and die?

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      I wonder what the radar cross section is.

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        Joe Woodbury wrote:

        And who's going to clean up the bodies that fall on your house?

        Yeah, I wonder how it ensures that the pilot (I was going to say "user" but that word just scares me when I consider how incompetent users can be) lands before the fuel runs out. When gas in a car runs out, you slow down and stop. When you run out of fuel in a jet pack, do you just fall down and die?

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        _Damian S_
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        aspdotnetdev wrote:

        When you run out of fuel in a jet pack

        aspdotnetdev wrote:

        you slow down and stop

        only much faster!!

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          aspdotnetdev wrote:

          When you run out of fuel in a jet pack

          aspdotnetdev wrote:

          you slow down and stop

          only much faster!!

          I don't have ADHD, I have ADOS... Attention Deficit oooh SHINY!! If you need a laugh, check out my Vodafone World of Difference application | If you like cars, check out the Booger Mobile blog | If you feel generous - make a donation to Camp Quality!!

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          AspDotNetDev
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          Ha, yeah, if you consider an impulse slowing down and stopping. Which would only occur after speeding up like you're in a Toyota.

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          • J Joe Woodbury

            "It is capable of traveling 30 miles in 30 minutes on a full tank of fuel." It goes 1 mph? Methinks there are multiple mixed up quotes in there. Brain freeze moment. It's 60 mph with no crumple zones. I have visions of Mr. Rocketbelt slamming into a highway sign and dropping onto the pavement below. And who's going to clean up the bodies that fall on your house?

            modified on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 9:04 PM

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            Joe Woodbury wrote:

            30 miles in 30 minutes

            Joe Woodbury wrote:

            It goes 1 mph?

            30 miles in 30 minutes = 1 mile per minute = 60 miles per hour. Right?

            Don't blame me. I voted for Chuck Norris.

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              Joe Woodbury wrote:

              30 miles in 30 minutes

              Joe Woodbury wrote:

              It goes 1 mph?

              30 miles in 30 minutes = 1 mile per minute = 60 miles per hour. Right?

              Don't blame me. I voted for Chuck Norris.

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              AspDotNetDev
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              Good catch. At 1 mile per hour, one could only travel half a mile in 30 minutes. :thumbsup:

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                FyreWyrm
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                Interesting. You can't use it in bad weather though. Personally, I'd rather have a Skycar.

                Don't blame me. I voted for Chuck Norris.

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                  Joe Woodbury wrote:

                  30 miles in 30 minutes

                  Joe Woodbury wrote:

                  It goes 1 mph?

                  30 miles in 30 minutes = 1 mile per minute = 60 miles per hour. Right?

                  Don't blame me. I voted for Chuck Norris.

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                  Joe Woodbury
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                  Yeah, brain freeze moment. And wow, wait until the youtube videos show up of people slamming into stuff at 60 mph.

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                    Yeah, brain freeze moment. And wow, wait until the youtube videos show up of people slamming into stuff at 60 mph.

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                    It goes 1 MPH: it's too slow! It goes 60 MPH: it's too fast! Make up your mind man ;P !

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                      It goes 1 MPH: it's too slow! It goes 60 MPH: it's too fast! Make up your mind man ;P !

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                      Joe Woodbury
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                      aspdotnetdev wrote:

                      It goes 1 MPH: it's too slow!

                      I think the entire thing is foolishness, but as long as the bodies don't land on me, they can play Darwin. Given the pictures and my brain freeze moment, I was just puzzled how something that looked like it would go so slow and what the point would be. Even the Segway goes faster.

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                        I wonder what the radar cross section is.

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                        That depends on the number of beers consumed so far by the pilot. Hmm. Wonder how soon they'll be smuggling these into the Gaza strip.

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                        • D Dalek Dave

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                          Roger Wright
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                          Only 30 miles to a tank of gas? That would get me to work, but not home again. :wtf: I think I'll wait until version 1.1...

                          "A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"

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                            Yeah, brain freeze moment. And wow, wait until the youtube videos show up of people slamming into stuff at 60 mph.

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                            Joe Woodbury wrote:

                            people slamming into stuff at 60 mph

                            Yeah, stuff like power lines. [News Anchor]Half the city was without power today when John Dumass flew his jet pack into an overhead line.[/News Anchor]

                            Don't blame me. I voted for Chuck Norris.

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                              Joe Woodbury wrote:

                              And who's going to clean up the bodies that fall on your house?

                              Yeah, I wonder how it ensures that the pilot (I was going to say "user" but that word just scares me when I consider how incompetent users can be) lands before the fuel runs out. When gas in a car runs out, you slow down and stop. When you run out of fuel in a jet pack, do you just fall down and die?

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                              Steve Mayfield
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                              a safety chute that deploys automatically when the engines shut down and you're more than a few feet above ground would be nice!

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                                Mark_Wallace
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                                Wait until the Health & Safety exec takes a look at it. Expect another 40 years.

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                                  Ha, yeah, if you consider an impulse slowing down and stopping. Which would only occur after speeding up like you're in a Toyota.

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                                  RichardM1
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                                  1G - that is 0-60 in < 3 seconds! Wow, I didn't know Toyota's could do that!

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                                    1G - that is 0-60 in < 3 seconds! Wow, I didn't know Toyota's could do that!

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                                    AspDotNetDev
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                                    The recent reports of Toyota's accelerating out of the driver's control seem to imply they can. :rolleyes:

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                                    • J Joe Woodbury

                                      "It is capable of traveling 30 miles in 30 minutes on a full tank of fuel." It goes 1 mph? Methinks there are multiple mixed up quotes in there. Brain freeze moment. It's 60 mph with no crumple zones. I have visions of Mr. Rocketbelt slamming into a highway sign and dropping onto the pavement below. And who's going to clean up the bodies that fall on your house?

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                                      Andreas Mertens
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                                      I can just imagine zooming up to some altitude, and the warning light for "low on gas" comes on...

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                                        Fabio Franco
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                                        Oh man... imagine when this gets popular and people start going with these to the bar :doh:

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                                          Joe Woodbury wrote:

                                          And who's going to clean up the bodies that fall on your house?

                                          Yeah, I wonder how it ensures that the pilot (I was going to say "user" but that word just scares me when I consider how incompetent users can be) lands before the fuel runs out. When gas in a car runs out, you slow down and stop. When you run out of fuel in a jet pack, do you just fall down and die?

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                                          It's not the fall, it's the sudden stop.

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