Bob, here is your jetpack

[Souplex]

Hot damn and hallelujah.

Considering that some new cars go for nearly $50k these days, using one of these to get to work is pretty close to doable. Mind you, according to martinjetpack.com, it runs on premium gas and has a gastank that holds five gallons. With an engine that burns ten gallons an hour, that's...urg. Less fuel efficient than an Abrams tank.

Ah well. It was a good ten seconds.

Hmm, still, half an hour at 100 miles an hour is a 50 mile maximum range.

Also if we got it to run off hydrogen fuel cell or something then we're really talking!

My main thought about this is that it would cut down my work commute from 40 minutes to 10, also I get to fly through the air and can park on the roof. AWESOME!

Not 100 MPH, 100 KPH. A kilometer is about 60% of a mile. You'd get about 60 MPH from it.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

Hot damn and hallelujah.

Considering that some new cars go for nearly $50k these days, using one of these to get to work is pretty close to doable. Mind you, according to martinjetpack.com, it runs on premium gas and has a gastank that holds five gallons. With an engine that burns ten gallons an hour, that's...urg. Less fuel efficient than an Abrams tank.

Ah well. It was a good ten seconds.

Hmm, still, half an hour at 100 miles an hour is a 50 mile maximum range.

Also if we got it to run off hydrogen fuel cell or something then we're really talking!

My main thought about this is that it would cut down my work commute from 40 minutes to 10, also I get to fly through the air and can park on the roof. AWESOME!

Not 100 MPH, 100 KPH. A kilometer is about 60% of a mile. You'd get about 60 MPH from it.

60 miles an hour, but I can do that legally in a car!

CURSE YOU METRIC SYSTEM! Ruining our jetpacks. Is nothing free of your base 10 manipulation?

 

[Quazimofo]

I wonder how Iron Man flies around with no visible fuel source now that I think about it...

The same way all comic book superheroes do the impossible...SCIENCE! In that unexplainable, "just go with it", blue-glowy kind of way that makes physicists cry.

Which means anti-grav tech, or that starwars repulsor stuff (Which is mostly the same, but looks more like engines), which makes one wonder, WHY THE HELL HASN'T HE SOLD THAT FOR CIVILIAN USE?!?!?! Repulsor tech would be useful as all hell!

 

[lechat]

correct me if i'm wrong but that is not technically a jet pack

 

[Evil Smurf]

Hot damn and hallelujah.

Considering that some new cars go for nearly $50k these days, using one of these to get to work is pretty close to doable. Mind you, according to martinjetpack.com, it runs on premium gas and has a gastank that holds five gallons. With an engine that burns ten gallons an hour, that's...urg. Less fuel efficient than an Abrams tank.

Ah well. It was a good ten seconds.

Hmm, still, half an hour at 100 miles an hour is a 50 mile maximum range.

Also if we got it to run off hydrogen fuel cell or something then we're really talking!

My main thought about this is that it would cut down my work commute from 40 minutes to 10, also I get to fly through the air and can park on the roof. AWESOME!

Not 100 MPH, 100 KPH. A kilometer is about 60% of a mile. You'd get about 60 MPH from it.

60 miles an hour, but I can do that legally in a car!

CURSE YOU METRIC SYSTEM! Ruining our jetpacks. Is nothing free of your base 10 manipulation?

The metric system is better. Easier to understand and stuff like that.

That's so cool.
And Australian accents are still really funny, no matter the subject.

Our accents are better then all the rest! With the exception of the ones in the UK. I'm really digging the welsh accent at the moment.

 

[Lazy Kitty]

Well, this isn't really news...
I've been posting links to their site for ages...

And yes, I can imagine a police state where copse move around on jetpacks.

 

[omicron1]

Combine these with that miracle carbon supercapacitor, and voila - you have a working jetpack.