Author Topic: The next time... (Read 4126 times)

Operator5 · « **on:** May 15, 2008, 04:35:58 AM »

...someone decides to tell you your pulp rocket packs are unrealistic.

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Man-soars-Alps-jet-powered-wing/ss/events/lf/051408yvesrossy#photoViewer=/080514/ids_photos_wl/r4188602212.jpg

Weird WWII · « **Reply #1 on:** May 15, 2008, 04:46:41 AM »

Whole new meaning to Airborne!

Awesome,
Brian

bandit86 · « **Reply #2 on:** May 15, 2008, 04:57:07 AM »

No pictures of the landing, I wonder why? Booooooom!!!!!

The Hooded Claw · « **Reply #3 on:** May 15, 2008, 04:59:46 AM »

This tech is very real. The US military is working on a version for HALO drops.

Hammers · « **Reply #4 on:** May 15, 2008, 10:49:31 AM »

Holy shit. It makes me think that fiction is hearding technology along, not the other way arround.

meanderthal · « **Reply #5 on:** May 15, 2008, 12:51:49 PM »

Quote from: hammershield on May 15, 2008, 10:49:31 AM

Holy shit. It makes me think that fiction is hearding technology along, not the other way arround.

I think that has been true for some time. Touchscreens on the Starship enterprise? Touchscreens in the real world. Two-way wrist TV/radios in the old Dick Tracy comic? Modern teeny cell phone video camera doohickeys. And I can go on... I have often thought that sci-fi has driven technological advancement at least as much as the converse!

capthugeca · « **Reply #6 on:** May 15, 2008, 01:30:58 PM »

Quote from: bandit86 on May 15, 2008, 04:57:07 AM

No pictures of the landing, I wonder why? Booooooom!!!!!

Just to put your mind at rest. BBC morning news ran this story and showed him landing...well his feet touched the floor but not sure what happened then.

DFlynSqrl · « **Reply #7 on:** May 15, 2008, 03:01:36 PM »

Saw this on the news this morning. Pretty cool!

twrchtrwyth · « **Reply #8 on:** May 15, 2008, 03:16:17 PM »

Nice, but I really think the Swiss need to concentrate on their weapons first,

(Sorry, couldn't help refrencing the good old Swiss army knife.)

Glitzer · « **Reply #9 on:** May 15, 2008, 09:31:09 PM »

Quote from: twrchtrwyth on May 15, 2008, 03:16:17 PM

Nice, but I really think the Swiss need to concentrate on their weapons first,

Don't you be quiet? I don't want to know what they'll do when they start building tanks or rockets.

Westfalia Chris · « **Reply #10 on:** May 15, 2008, 09:44:17 PM »

Quote from: Glitzer on May 15, 2008, 09:31:09 PM

Quote from: twrchtrwyth on May 15, 2008, 03:16:17 PM
Nice, but I really think the Swiss need to concentrate on their weapons first,

Don't you be quiet? I don't want to know what they'll do when they start building tanks or rockets.

Well, they´ve been building tanks and fine AFVs for decades, like the Pz 61 and, more famously, the Piranha family... now, if they mated one of their Piranha variants to a bunch of those jetpacks, THEN I´ll start to worry.

Let´s hear it for the Swiss Mountain Navy Bicycle Brigade!

Doomsdave · « **Reply #11 on:** May 16, 2008, 12:11:54 PM »

The Swiss won't fight, they'll profit from the fighting. The jetpack is cool but I also look forward to the stompy robots.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/humanoids/sarcoss-exoskeleton-is-more-amazing-than-we-thought-326128.php

GregX999 · « **Reply #12 on:** May 16, 2008, 06:24:47 PM »

Imagine putting the two together - a flying powered exoskeleton...

Greg

Snate56 · « **Reply #13 on:** May 21, 2008, 03:27:34 AM »

Well, duh!
It's called Iron Man!

SteveN

postal · « **Reply #14 on:** May 21, 2008, 11:53:13 AM »

we use a device that was on the 60's star trek every day.what is it?

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