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The Martin Jetpack

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Honk wrote: »
    What if you forget about how much fuel you have left?

    People will die like flies when these things reach the market.

    Someone said there were three different fail safes built into it if both engines go out for any reason.

    So unless they are flying over an active volcano...

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  • HappylilElfHappylilElf Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Honk wrote: »
    What if you forget about how much fuel you have left?

    People will die like flies when these things reach the market.

    When they're hitting the market at 75k? Doubt it.

    Some rich people maybe but thinking these are going to become commonplace is a bit of a stretch. Also multiple failsafes. Also people are probably going to pay much closer attention to their fuel levels than they do in, say, their cars for obvious reasons :P

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  • HonkHonk Honk is this poster. Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2010
    I just saw that it has a ballistic parachute.

    Sign me up.

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  • psychotixpsychotix __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2010
    Burtletoy wrote: »
    Honk wrote: »
    What if you forget about how much fuel you have left?

    People will die like flies when these things reach the market.

    Someone said there were three different fail safes built into it if both engines go out for any reason.

    So unless they are flying over an active volcano...

    Human stupidity, drunk jetpacking.

    I want to get one and drop things on people.

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  • QliphothQliphoth Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Hey its about time we invented something awesome.

    Wonder when they'll be hiring them out for test flights.

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  • ImprovoloneImprovolone Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    What a wonderful means to travel to my garage. I had grown so tired merely walking to my Segway.

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  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    pssh, drunk jetpacking is nothing

    wait for jetpack jousting

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  • psychotixpsychotix __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2010
    Dyscord wrote: »
    pssh, drunk jetpacking is nothing

    wait for jetpack jousting

    Fly-by shootings!

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  • Just Like ThatJust Like That Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    $75,000..... or free when stolen

    Seriously, if you get one of these, you should probably hide it

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  • PellaeonPellaeon Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    $75,000..... or free when stolen

    Seriously, if you get one of these, you should probably hide it

    BRB, filing my patent for a Jetpack version of The Club

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  • RandomEngyRandomEngy Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I wrote them about having videos of flying higher. They said they're restricting the height of their flights for now because the ballistic parachute isn't installed yet.

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  • yalborapyalborap Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    RandomEngy wrote: »
    I wrote them about having videos of flying higher. They said they're restricting the height of their flights for now because the ballistic parachute isn't installed yet.

    That's a pretty good reason.

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  • CorehealerCorehealer The Apothecary The softer edge of the universe.Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Jetpacks. Crossed off my list.

    Now all we need is FTL travel and we'll be kings of the universe, pelting aliens with water balloons from on high.

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  • SpeakerSpeaker Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Six miles to the gallon huh?

    I guess you have that kind of money if you can afford one anyway.

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  • PeccaviPeccavi Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    According to this documentary I watched, we're supposed to have hoverboards by 2015. With mammoth-sized jetpacks just starting to be built, I think it was a tad optimistic.

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  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Speaker wrote: »
    Six miles to the gallon huh?

    I guess you have that kind of money if you can afford one anyway.

    In all fairness, it's six miles nonstop as the crow flies.

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  • SurikoSuriko AustraliaRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    How do I buy one: "We're accepting enquiries"
    News and press: Vague allusions to funding from an unnamed government
    Links: Empty
    Videos: One video of it lifting up a handful of feet in a warehouse

    I'm sceptical.

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  • Mega PlayboyMega Playboy Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    What up with the laser love. Missile pods are why cooler. With laser you only get to burn stuff. With missile you can choses payloads to suit your need. Jerk down the street having a outdoor party. Load up the tear gas and have your jet pack vengeance.

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  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    New Zealand, not fucking Australia.
    Qliphoth wrote: »
    Hey its about time we invented something awesome.

    Wonder when they'll be hiring them out for test flights.

    They are. The first person paying for a ride was a stripper, with the club owner forking out for the publicity.

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  • dlinfinitidlinfiniti Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
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    how much is this option?

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  • RandomEngyRandomEngy Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    L|ama wrote: »
    New Zealand, not fucking Australia.

    Ahh right. Corrected.

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  • LavaKnightLavaKnight Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I would fly this to work. It's only a couple miles away, so if the cops tried to catch me I'd just jetpack away.

    Although being the only person in town who owns a jetpack would be pretty suspicious.

    Edit: God, I'm envisioning jetpacking off the roof of my building and landing on the roof of my work every day and it's making me absolutely giddy.

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  • TalleyrandTalleyrand Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Guys, I just spent all day thinking about this.

    Sure it'll be mostly a couple rich assholes who buy one to add to their menagerie of unnecessary vehicles. Probably one in every color.

    We're most likely to see a demonstration personally when companies start holding them as a PR thing or when some shrewd entrepreneur buys one and starts charging $50 a ride. And this is only the first step. Eventually they're going to start making enough money so someone is going to want to buy them out and start improving the model.

    Well either that or they're just going to be really expensive Segways and become more of a joke than anything else.

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  • Stabbity StyleStabbity Style He/Him | Warning: Mothership Reporting Kennewick, WARegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    How would you enforce the no-fly over populated areas? I mean, they're on a jetpack. I suppose if it's rare it'd be a lot easier to track down who has one, but what if it becomes more commonplace?

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  • QliphothQliphoth Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    L|ama wrote: »
    New Zealand, not fucking Australia.
    Qliphoth wrote: »
    Hey its about time we invented something awesome.

    Wonder when they'll be hiring them out for test flights.

    They are. The first person paying for a ride was a stripper, with the club owner forking out for the publicity.

    Haha we love to claim new zealand's shit as our own. Until something goes wrong.

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  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Yeah, we so generously give you Russell Crowe and yet you still keep taking. For shame.

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  • Johnny ChopsockyJohnny Chopsocky Scootaloo! We have to cook! Grillin' HaysenburgersRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
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    "It WILL fly!"

    Seriously, we made it this far into the thread without a single mention of The Rocketeer? FOR SHAME.

    Oh yeah, and that jetpack thing? AWESOME. How awesome?
    SO AWESOME.

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  • JokermanJokerman Everything EverywhereRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    dammit all, i was just about to post saying "Call me when I can look like this."
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  • Sir CarcassSir Carcass I have been shown the end of my world Round Rock, TXRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Quid wrote: »
    Speaker wrote: »
    Six miles to the gallon huh?

    I guess you have that kind of money if you can afford one anyway.

    In all fairness, it's six miles nonstop as the guy with the jetpack flies.

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  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    How would you enforce the no-fly over populated areas? I mean, they're on a jetpack. I suppose if it's rare it'd be a lot easier to track down who has one, but what if it becomes more commonplace?

    Flak cannons.

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  • DanHibikiDanHibiki Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    LavaKnight wrote: »
    I would fly this to work. It's only a couple miles away, so if the cops tried to catch me I'd just jetpack away.

    Although being the only person in town who owns a jetpack would be pretty suspicious.

    Edit: God, I'm envisioning jetpacking off the roof of my building and landing on the roof of my work every day and it's making me absolutely giddy.

    I envision you getting caught in power lines and me stealing your jet pack and washing your charred corpse off it in my garage.

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  • Bionic MonkeyBionic Monkey Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2010
    How would you enforce the no-fly over populated areas? I mean, they're on a jetpack. I suppose if it's rare it'd be a lot easier to track down who has one, but what if it becomes more commonplace?

    Probably the same way they do right now with ultralights and personal planes. It would be unreasonably difficult to track you across the sky, and determine your landing point where they could then ticket/arrest you.

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  • dlinfinitidlinfiniti Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    why is rocketeer's fly open? did he have the same idea i did?

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  • firewaterwordfirewaterword Satchitananda Pais Vasco to San FranciscoRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    This is completely awesome. And since the Kiwis are behind it, I have a tenuous excuse to post an awful joke.

    Why are New Zealand horses some of the fastest in the world?
    They've seen what they do to the sheep!

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  • dlinfinitidlinfiniti Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    This is completely awesome. And since the Kiwis are behind it, I have a tenuous excuse to post an awful joke.

    Why are New Zealand horses some of the fastest in the world?
    They've seen what they do to the sheep!

    did someone say kiwi?

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  • QonasQonas Detroit, MIRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Totally off-topic, but literally every time this thread pops up on the D&D page I end up reading it as "The Martian Jetpack".

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  • PolloDiabloPolloDiablo Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    That is really super cool. I would totally buy one if I were crazy rich. I think the history of flying personal craft will be 1. they get cheap enough to be generally affordable, 2. then everyone buys them and a few crash or one crashes into something expensive (it wouldn't even take anywhere near the same ratio of drivers to crashes as car for most people to condemn them) 3. they're recalled and join personal hot air balloons in the realm of things that won't happen.

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  • Hotlead JunkieHotlead Junkie Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I want to see a gang of bank robbers with these. Laughing maniacally while flying away, a big sack of cash with a '$' sign on it on one hand and their other hand twiddling their fancy mustaches

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I want to see a gang of bank robbers with these. Laughing maniacally while flying away, a big sack of cash with a '$' sign on it on one hand and their other hand twiddling their fancy mustaches

    I can picture the tirade Scrooge McDuck is about to go on...

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  • Just Like ThatJust Like That Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    dlinfiniti wrote: »
    why is rocketeer's fly open? did he have the same idea i did?

    To pee on filthy commoners as you soar majestically over them in your badass super expensive jetpack?

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