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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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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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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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.
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.
How do I buy one: "We're accepting enquiries"
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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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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 $50 a ride. And this is only the first step. Eventually they're going to start making enough money so someone is going to want to buy them out and start improving the model.
Well either that or they're just going to be really expensive Segways and become more of a joke than anything else.
How would you enforce the no-fly over populated areas? I mean, they're on a jetpack. I suppose if it's rare it'd be a lot easier to track down who has one, but what if it becomes more commonplace?
How would you enforce the no-fly over populated areas? I mean, they're on a jetpack. I suppose if it's rare it'd be a lot easier to track down who has one, but what if it becomes more commonplace?
How would you enforce the no-fly over populated areas? I mean, they're on a jetpack. I suppose if it's rare it'd be a lot easier to track down who has one, but what if it becomes more commonplace?
Probably the same way they do right now with ultralights and personal planes. It would be unreasonably difficult to track you across the sky, and determine your landing point where they could then ticket/arrest you.
Totally off-topic, but literally every time this thread pops up on the D&D page I end up reading it as "The Martian Jetpack".
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That is really super cool. I would totally buy one if I were crazy rich. I think the history of flying personal craft will be 1. they get cheap enough to be generally affordable, 2. then everyone buys them and a few crash or one crashes into something expensive (it wouldn't even take anywhere near the same ratio of drivers to crashes as car for most people to condemn them) 3. they're recalled and join personal hot air balloons in the realm of things that won't happen.
I want to see a gang of bank robbers with these. Laughing maniacally while flying away, a big sack of cash with a '$' sign on it on one hand and their other hand twiddling their fancy mustaches
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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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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...
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
Sign me up.
Human stupidity, drunk jetpacking.
I want to get one and drop things on people.
Wonder when they'll be hiring them out for test flights.
wait for jetpack jousting
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Fly-by shootings!
Seriously, if you get one of these, you should probably hide it
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That's a pretty good reason.
Now all we need is FTL travel and we'll be kings of the universe, pelting aliens with water balloons from on high.
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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I'm sceptical.
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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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how much is this option?
Ahh right. Corrected.
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.
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.
Haha we love to claim new zealand's shit as our own. Until something goes wrong.
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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?
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Flak cannons.
I envision you getting caught in power lines and me stealing your jet pack and washing your charred corpse off it in my garage.
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.
Why are New Zealand horses some of the fastest in the world?
did someone say kiwi?
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I can picture the tirade Scrooge McDuck is about to go on...
To pee on filthy commoners as you soar majestically over them in your badass super expensive jetpack?