RikOz Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 Actual jetpack in action! (video included at the end of the article) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Cat Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 How much at the P2W? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancrusher Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 Now all they need to do is graft it to a fully weaponized, armored exo-suit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Z Bubba Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 2 hours ago, Cancrusher said: Now all they need to do is graft it to a fully weaponized, armored exo-suit. Baby steps. We'll have War Machine soon enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twisted Toon Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 16 hours ago, Cancrusher said: Now all they need to do is graft it to a fully weaponized, armored exo-suit. Adam Savage beat you to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminara Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 Jet packs have been around for decades. My favorite thus far is the one Yves Rossy designed in 2006, a winged jet pack not terribly dissimilar to the ones in the game (a wonderful example of science fiction preceding science). In 2012, he appeared on an episode of Top Gear (Season 18, episode 5) in a race against a rally car. He's still performing demonstrations as recently as 2020. And someone out there is having fun in California right now. Get busy living... or get busy dying. That's goddamn right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeregrineFalcon Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 Here's a guy flying a jetpack during the LA Olympics Opening Ceremonies in 1984. 1 Being constantly offended doesn't mean you're right, it means you're too narcissistic to tolerate opinions different than your own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wjrasmussen Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 19 hours ago, RikOz said: Actual jetpack in action! (video included at the end of the article) reach for your gun in flight...... 1 I went to Ouroboros all i got was this lousy secret! COH bomp bomp: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancrusher Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 Cool. By the time I'm getting ready to croak, people will probably be zipping around in the things (and flying cars), everywhere. 😎 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coggy Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 earliest use of a jet pack i remember is 1965 in thunderball https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Rocket_Belt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashington Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 there are cheaper methods Spoiler Have fun with the nightmares. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminara Posted February 12, 2022 Share Posted February 12, 2022 23 hours ago, Cancrusher said: Cool. By the time I'm getting ready to croak, people will probably be zipping around in the things (and flying cars), everywhere. 😎 Flying cars have already been prototyped, some with the intent to go into production, but they've never been legalized or mass-produced, and likely never will unless they're controlled by something other than a human driver. People can't drive ground-based cars now without crashing into everything between them and their destination, no government in their right mind would allow those same people to fly. 2 1 Get busy living... or get busy dying. That's goddamn right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironblade Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 Yeah . . . jet packs . . . 1 1 Originally on Infinity. I have Ironblade on every shard. - My only AE arc: The Origin of Mark IV (ID 48002) Link to the story of Toggle Man, since I keep having to track down my original post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biostem Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 I think the flyboard air is a much better approach... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biostem Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 (edited) On 2/11/2022 at 5:02 PM, Cancrusher said: Cool. By the time I'm getting ready to croak, people will probably be zipping around in the things (and flying cars), everywhere. 😎 Oh man I hope not - people can't even be trusted to drive properly, and I am hesitant to see self-flying cars deployed on a mass scale; These will likely be the domain of the ultra-wealthy for a long time to come... Edited February 15, 2022 by biostem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancrusher Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 Well, you do have a point there. Hopefully they'll have the risk assessment aspect ironed out before the populace at large can afford to own one. I'm guessing they're banking on self-driving vehicles to take care of that problem. We'll just have to wait and see how it goes. 🤷♂️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Zot Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 On 2/13/2022 at 7:18 PM, Cancrusher said: Well, you do have a point there. Hopefully they'll have the risk assessment aspect ironed out before the populace at large can afford to own one. I'm guessing they're banking on self-driving vehicles to take care of that problem. We'll just have to wait and see how it goes. 🤷♂️ Despite the hype, there's still a lot of R&D between "self-driving" and "road-ready", and another huge gap between that and "affordable". Don't hold your breath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancrusher Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 Yep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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