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Thread ID: 118397	2011-06-02 19:39:00	New Jet-Pack Causes Old Records To Fall	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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1206451	2011-06-03 05:11:00	All the nay-sayers better be prepared to eat their words. Successful jet packs are an inevitability. Also, you can run a car on water, but the tech is really in its infancy and will be entirely feasible in time as are jetpacks. As is welding using water, a reality now. And yet there's still heaps of people who scoff at the idea.	WalOne (4202)
1206452	2011-06-03 05:14:00	So it runs on petrol from your local service station - yet it is illegal to fly over a built up area - let alone land to refuel. The parachute did NOT work for the first 400 feet the machine fell from the sky. What chance of survival if you were cruising at 390'? Don't compare with Kingsford Smith. Compare apples with apples - not apples and elephants :( This device is a joke - and a very sick one at that.	Zippity (58)
1206453	2011-06-03 05:16:00	In the early 1950s, our futuristic magazine - Popular Mechanics in particular - said that atomic energy generation would become so cheap that electricity would be free by the 1960s or so . (My father's dad even walked around with a toaster under his arms for years, waiting for electricity to be invented . ) Then they crystal-balled the fact that we''d all be commuting in convertible car-airplanes to and from work . Uh huh . People cannot drive in TWO DIMENSIONS now - imagine the carnage in THREE? Bodies, human and auto/plane parts falling onto the ground all over the place And actually I believe if the Wright Brothers hadn't done it, someone else would have sooner or later . Later might even have been much better anyway . Later would mean the possibility of The Great War might've been put off a while and by today's medical frontier, the rapid transportation from Europe to the US to Indochina and everywhere else would not be happening . Bugs hitch a ride and we are now globally contaminated . Some great physicists of the days during the advent of the steam railroad, said that the human body could never survive the 100 mile per hour barrier without having it's blood boil . Perhaps they were all Kiwis? I think not .	SurferJoe46 (51)
1206454	2011-06-03 05:16:00	As is welding using water, a reality now. And yet there's still heaps of people who scoff at the idea. I have heard of drilling using water but not welding.	mikebartnz (21)
1206455	2011-06-03 05:33:00	So it runs on petrol from your local service station - yet it is illegal to fly over a built up area - let alone land to refuel.. I think you have taken that too literally as it was really just saying that it didn't need a special fuel. The parachute did NOT work for the first 400 feet the machine fell from the sky. What chance of survival if you were cruising at 390'?. I'm not sure how many feet it took but remember this is still in its development stage. Don't compare with Kingsford Smith. Compare apples with apples - not apples and elephants :(. He was a pioneer in winged flight when there were vast risks and Martin is pioneering a different form of flight which initially will have great risk but in time will be comparable with other forms of flight so it is comparable. This device is a joke - and a very sick one at that. With your attitude nothing with any risk would ever proceed. May be you have been bought up in today's world where people have been discouraged from taking risks and hence have not learnt there limitations.	mikebartnz (21)
1206456	2011-06-03 05:44:00	I see a market for Harbour Bridges here! The thing has climbed to 5,000 feet in 20 years . Give it another 40 years and it may well have travelled a mile (1 . 6 km) . It is likely that the thing will never get to 6,000 feet before we run out of oil, but I am sure it will generate enough hot air to tide us through a couple of Parliamentary recesses . Netsukeninja will be able to supply a "fly-on-water" adapter kit complete with on-board cameras for filming the mass fly-by of the pigs . These three events will be marked by a star in the East, Mrs Brash's little lad having his first bright idea, and a virus being stymied by Nortons . There may be a delay .	R2x1 (4628)
1206457	2011-06-03 05:50:00	Wait for the first person to get killed in one and it's all over... There are still thousands of airplanes flying and millions of cars on the roads despite people being killed in them every day. Doesn't appear to put many off.	FoxyMX (5)
1206458	2011-06-03 06:20:00	I think you have taken that too literally as it was really just saying that it didn't need a special fuel . I'm not sure how many feet it took but remember this is still in its development stage . He was a pioneer in winged flight when there were vast risks and Martin is pioneering a different form of flight which initially will have great risk but in time will be comparable with other forms of flight so it is comparable . With your attitude nothing with any risk would ever proceed . May be you have been bought up in today's world where people have been discouraged from taking risks and hence have not learnt there limitations . Just how much of your cash have you invested in this device? What possible use is it even if it does work?	CliveM (6007)
1206459	2011-06-03 06:28:00	There are still thousands of airplanes flying and millions of cars on the roads despite people being killed in them every day. Doesn't appear to put many off. It will if the person killed is in the US and they sue the crap out of the Jetpack makers here in NZ..	paulw (1826)
1206460	2011-06-03 06:39:00	It will if the person killed is in the US and they sue the crap out of the Jetpack makers here in NZ.. Who said a factory for these is going to be in NZ? At the moment it's a prototype. If we all take your attitude it will be shot down before it gets off the ground!! :annoyed:	Snorkbox (15764)
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