Jetpack! No, really!

KingOrfeo · Oct 4, 2010

The first commercial jetpack is about to hit the market! It costs more than $100,000 and can only carry enough fuel for a 30-minute/30-mile flight, but, dammit! IT'S A JETPACK! [cue shaft of light and angelic choir]

"I'm going to write a story set after the Singularity, a million years hence, when we are all intergalactically-empowered immortal sentiences in the Beyond, and people will STILL BE COMPLAINING ABOUT NOT HAVING SODDING JETPACKS."

— Patrick Nielsen Hayden

rosco rathbone · Oct 4, 2010

"is about" to hit the market?

Although it may sound more sci-fi than sci-fact, a commercially developed jetpack is actually being eyed for mass production, with plans to eventually release it to the public.

_prudence_ · Oct 4, 2010

I'm going to have to keep this from my 4yr old Grandson. He asked for one a jetpack for christmas.

I told him I would have to sell my house to buy one, making me homeless and I would have to live in a cardboard box.

Now, I asked him, do you still want one? His anwser - YES.

koalabear · Oct 4, 2010

_prudence_ said:
I'm going to have to keep this from my 4yr old Grandson. He asked for one a jetpack for christmas.

I told him I would have to sell my house to buy one, making me homeless and I would have to live in a cardboard box.

Now, I asked him, do you still want one? His anwser - YES.

Sounds like he may be an Obama supporter.

_prudence_ · Oct 4, 2010

koalabear said:
Sounds like he may be an Obama supporter.

If he is he's oceans away from ever being able to vote for him

I think he's just really into being able to fly...

bronzeage · Oct 4, 2010

It looks like a flying toilet.

I'll wait for the rocket boots.

Jetpack! No, really!

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