Jetpack Transfer Open Thread

Google's worthless AI says it's all real:

Yes, jetpacks are actively being tested by militaries, especially the British Royal Marines and Royal Navy, to move personnel between ships or from ship to shore for faster boarding, reconnaissance, and tactical access, using companies like Gravity Industries's suits that resemble Iron Man's tech and offer potential for combat medics and pilot rescue, moving beyond simple transfers to tactical swarming

They fly now?!

They fly now.

Practical use of Jetpacks in the Military Field. pic.twitter.com/gFMaBuKRo0
— The Best (@Thebestfigen) December 21, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 02:30 PM

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1 Hello!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 23, 2025 05:21 PM (hZbnZ)

2 I'm waiting for a Starcraft style Goliath to show up. Original Starcraft / BroodWar style. Should be easily within reach, to be honest.

Posted by: SimoHayek at December 26, 2025 02:35 PM (/ZkOF)

3 All of that gear is used just for propulsion. No weight allowance for weapons. By the time you get the power, range and armaments that you want, you will have a full blown helicopter.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 26, 2025 02:35 PM (PWcY+)

4 I called the corgis.

Posted by: SimoHayek at December 26, 2025 02:35 PM (/ZkOF)

5 Having never seen Iron Man, I regard these as borderline too dangerous to use reliably.

Then again, I regard Vespa scoters as too dangerous to use, as well.

Posted by: zombie at December 26, 2025 02:36 PM (oraVG)

6 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 02:38 PM (Zz0t1)

7 Screw this amateur sh*t. Get yourself a "Jetson One" single person EVTOL.

https://tinyurl.com/5n7c88nn

Latest models sell for about $148,000. And, they are sold out through 2026 and most of 2027. So, strap in for the idiotic Darwinism that is to follow. Rich kids with no sense flying around in single passenger (what is essentially a piloted drone).

On a curious note, I'm guessing that US Special Operators are eyeing this little gizmo with interest, and probably already have engineers working on sound dampening.

Posted by: Orson at December 26, 2025 02:39 PM (dIske)

8 Put the controls on the legs, and free up the arms for weapons use while airborne.

pew pew from the sky.

Posted by: coba at December 26, 2025 02:39 PM (IuIym)

9 Why not?
Seems like a great idea.

Well, unless you run out of gas over the North Atlantic.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 26, 2025 02:39 PM (6ydKt)

10 Looks like the enemy would shoot em like skeet

Posted by: Oh noes!! at December 26, 2025 02:39 PM (HcoTw)

11 Limited range and capabilty, it's just another Pentagon spending spree.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at December 26, 2025 02:39 PM (DY7Xb)

12 All of that gear is used just for propulsion. No weight allowance for weapons. By the time you get the power, range and armaments that you want, you will have a full blown helicopter.

Beats going for an Arctic swim.

Posted by: Jack Ryan at December 26, 2025 02:40 PM (Riz8t)

13 Dat shit cray.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 02:40 PM (Zz0t1)

14 I think the RN dude using a jetpack to fly over to the ship is old. 2021 demo by the manufacturer, Gravity Industries. It is real, however.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 26, 2025 02:40 PM (NwnyJ)

15 Looks like the enemy would shoot em like skeet

Nah, put them in a Miss PacMan costume and the enemy would be too befuddled to shoot.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 26, 2025 02:41 PM (Riz8t)

16 11 Limited range and capabilty, it's just another Pentagon spending spree.
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at December 26, 2025 02:39 PM (DY7Xb)

Or is that MOD (Ministry of Defence) Whitehall? It did say Royal Marines.

Or both?

Posted by: Curmudgeon at December 26, 2025 02:41 PM (YN34E)

17
Nah, put them in a Miss PacMan costume and the enemy would be too befuddled to shoot.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 26, 2025 02:41 PM (Riz8t)

As long as it sounds like her eating the dots as it flies.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 02:42 PM (Zz0t1)

18 So get there and board, then what

Posted by: javems at December 26, 2025 02:42 PM (8I4hW)

19
It's meant to replace the RAF.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2025 02:42 PM (tgvbd)

20 Or is that MOD (Ministry of Defence) Whitehall? It did say Royal Marines.

MoD:
Let's see. Should we have ships, tanks, and airplanes, or, you know, a really cool toy.

The toy it is!

Posted by: Archimedes at December 26, 2025 02:42 PM (Riz8t)

21 Now, try flying around like a trailer-park version of Iron Man while a couple of FPV combat drones do their best to blow you out of the sky.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 26, 2025 02:43 PM (Apzx6)

22 18 So get there and board, then what

Posted by: javems at December 26, 2025 02:42 PM (8I4hW)

In the first YT video once the guy with the jetpack lands on board he unrolls a ladder over the side for the boat crew to climb on board.

I hope they're at least going to give that guy a pistol.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 26, 2025 02:43 PM (6ydKt)

23 They fly now?!

They fly now.
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"Somehow Palatine returned."

This Christmas season, I'd like to express my thankfulness to YouTube channels who allow me to make fun of Hollyweird movies I never have and never will see. Here are the ones I am most thankful for:

Nerdrotic
Critical Drinker
Disparu
Heelvsbabyface
Mr. H Reviews
The Little Platoon
Dave Cullen

Posted by: the lower depths at December 26, 2025 02:44 PM (UdiE9)

24 Is AI the New Goebels?

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at December 26, 2025 02:44 PM (1yGOf)

25 5 Having never seen Iron Man, I regard these as borderline too dangerous to use reliably.

Then again, I regard Vespa scoters as too dangerous to use, as well.
Posted by: zombie at December 26, 2025 02:36 PM (oraVG)

the biggest problem is that you can only carry a limited supply of fuel, so they only have a couple of minutes of flight time. If you miscalculate or run into something unexpected, your jetpack could cut off with you still 100 feet up in the air.

The entire Iron Man premise is based on some techno-magic that provides infinite power.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 26, 2025 02:44 PM (uWKK8)

26 I saw a demo of this where they were simulating a medic getting to a casualty at the top of a hill with very bad terrain. Might be useful for civilian SAR - get close with a vehicle then jet pack to the casualty and stabilize them until the ground team can get in for transport (or find a place for a helo evacuation).

Posted by: PabloD at December 26, 2025 02:44 PM (Epuwl)

27 Good luck using them against the Russians, Limey turds.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 26, 2025 02:45 PM (wBaIH)

28
anyone remember the Disney movie The Rocketeer?

It was the last good family movie Disney produced.

1991?

Posted by: ...Soothsayer... at December 26, 2025 02:45 PM (CvEXk)

29 This Christmas season, I'd like to express my thankfulness to YouTube channels who allow me to make fun of Hollyweird movies I never have and never will see. Here are the ones I am most thankful for:

Nerdrotic
Critical Drinker
Disparu
Heelvsbabyface
Mr. H Reviews
The Little Platoon
Dave Cullen
Posted by: the lower depths at December 26, 2025 02:44 PM (UdiE9)

TJM hardest hit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 02:45 PM (Zz0t1)

30 This must be raciss and sexiss. It's hard to believe the differences are so stark.

The sex split in student loan payments is interesting.

Men immediately cut down on their loans, whereas women tend to make little progress, even more than a decade on.

https://is.gd/VEwTim

Posted by: Archimedes at December 26, 2025 02:45 PM (Riz8t)

31
Every negative comment about this makes you liable for arrest by HM Government.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2025 02:46 PM (tgvbd)

32 The entire Iron Man premise is based on some techno-magic that provides infinite power.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Brought to you by the same folks, Acme Co. iirc, that creates handgun magazines that have unlimited capacity.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 26, 2025 02:46 PM (cYBz/)

33
I hope they're at least going to give that guy a pistol.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 26, 2025 02:43 PM (6ydKt)

The one vid shows them landing then pulling AR's.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 02:46 PM (Zz0t1)

34 Get there and then...LASER BLASTERS!

Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 26, 2025 02:46 PM (xNHSX)

35 Very nice of the people on the ship not to shoot at the guy with the jet suit. A Phalanx gun would obliterate the guy and the suit

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 26, 2025 02:46 PM (2vrAX)

36 anyone remember the Disney movie The Rocketeer?

It was the last good family movie Disney produced.

What you mean, of course, is "first look at Jennifer Connelly's boobies".

Posted by: Archimedes at December 26, 2025 02:46 PM (Riz8t)

37 29 TJM hardest hit.
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Like I said, I want to see epic trash without having to watch it myself (and waste my money). TJM is a cinephile. I am not a cinephile.

Posted by: the lower depths at December 26, 2025 02:47 PM (UdiE9)

38 Very nice of the people on the ship not to shoot at the guy with the jet suit. A Phalanx gun would obliterate the guy and the suit

They could hit the guy with Iron Beam, and he would land looking like a well-done steak.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 26, 2025 02:47 PM (Riz8t)

39 Practical use of Jetpacks in the Military Field.

Captain, I'm here to talk to you about your ship's warranty.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 02:48 PM (c115l)

40 Pull!

Posted by: STW at December 26, 2025 02:48 PM (mdTsR)

41 Posted by: zombie at December 26, 2025 02:36 PM (oraVG)

I think scooters - or electric bikes or whatever - they're called the on the ground are unsafe- at least around here they mostly seem like the might be being used by illegal aliens since you don't have a license to get one.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2025 02:49 PM (7RYym)

42
At my age, I prefer activities where gravity won't have a fatal effect.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2025 02:50 PM (tgvbd)

43 At my age, I prefer activities where gravity won't have a fatal effect.

I guess skiing down Everest is right out.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 26, 2025 02:50 PM (Riz8t)

44 So get there and board, then what

Posted by: javems at December 26, 2025 02:42 PM (8I4hW)

Ask if they have any Grey Poupon.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 26, 2025 02:50 PM (snZF9)

45
Gomez Addams is not mort. He's almost 96, living in Baltimore.

I think Cpl Klinger is still alive, too.

Posted by: ...Soothsayer... at December 26, 2025 02:50 PM (CvEXk)

46 I think scooters - or electric bikes or whatever - they're called the on the ground are unsafe- at least around here they mostly seem like the might be being used by illegal aliens since you don't have a license to get one.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2025 02:49 PM (7RYym)

Just wait till they light the house on fire while they're recharging.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 02:51 PM (Zz0t1)

47 I demand the Trump administration immediately stop blowing drug boats up and instead use this technology to land law enforcement on a speeding vessel and arrest the suspects, after reading them their rights of course.

Posted by: Every Democrat Lawmaker at December 26, 2025 02:51 PM (Apzx6)

48 Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 02:48 PM (c115l)

We'll be rolling through your neck of the woods in a few hours.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 02:51 PM (Zz0t1)

49 37 29 TJM hardest hit.
----------------------
Like I said, I want to see epic trash without having to watch it myself (and waste my money). TJM is a cinephile. I am not a cinephile.

Posted by: the lower depths at December 26, 2025 02:47 PM (UdiE9)

=====

Only us snooty people can appreciate the genius of Seven Samurai.

Don't you dare try to watch it!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 26, 2025 02:52 PM (GBKbO)

50 What could possibly go wrong? Let me count the ways.
First, will women be flying them?

Posted by: Case at December 26, 2025 02:52 PM (G1OIb)

51 I dunno, those jetpack videos look really fake to me, like CGI scenes from the latest Marvel flop. TBINBI.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 26, 2025 02:52 PM (iFTx/)

52 The Gods Must Be Crazy 2: Jetpack Boogaloo.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 26, 2025 02:52 PM (dK+Kv)

53 Baked beans + hard-boiled egg lunch= personal jetpack!

Posted by: Running On Fumes, Now at December 26, 2025 02:53 PM (oftw2)

54
23 This Christmas season, I'd like to express my thankfulness to YouTube channels who allow me to make fun of Hollyweird movies I never have and never will see. Here are the ones I am most thankful for:

Nerdrotic
Critical Drinker
Disparu
Heelvsbabyface
Mr. H Reviews
The Little Platoon
Dave Cullen

I only know the first two, will have to check out the others. I'm a sucker for snarky podcasts that mock so-bad-they're-good movies and TV.

Mine include RedLetterMedia, FanBoyFlicks, Dead Meat for horror, but he's been getting pretty woke and if his wife's on it's an auto-skip. CinemaSins is still going strong. This Aged Great! never fails to crack me up. Found Footage Fest's Shaturday Morning Cartoons is great.

Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 26, 2025 02:53 PM (xNHSX)

55 Nifty toy. You gotta heads-up display with night vision?

An illiterate savage with an AK-47 would render this obsolete.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 26, 2025 02:54 PM (nljXp)

56 Military wise this seems like a Bond scenerio. "Bond the U.S. will accept you on their submarine from our destroyer and deliver you to scuba range of the villain's lair, you'll have to stay within 20 feet of the water surface to avoid detection by radar and you only have 60 seconds of fuel."

But Pablo's thought of usefulness for civilian rescue operations does make sense.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 26, 2025 02:54 PM (hhkIi)

57 >>>Yes, jetpacks are actively being tested by militaries

Phht. Needs cupholders.

Posted by: Chair Force Generals at December 26, 2025 02:55 PM (dK+Kv)

58 32 The entire Iron Man premise is based on some techno-magic that provides infinite power.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Brought to you by the same folks, Acme Co. iirc, that creates handgun magazines that have unlimited capacity.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 26, 2025 02:46 PM (cYBz/)

And now I visualize Wile E. Coyote (super genius!) instead of the Royal Marine......

Posted by: Curmudgeon at December 26, 2025 02:55 PM (YN34E)

59 Mobile Infantry Powered Armor, inserted from orbit, with a Y-tube grenade launcher on the back for me, thank you.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 26, 2025 02:55 PM (Apzx6)

60 21 Now, try flying around like a trailer-park version of Iron Man while a couple of FPV combat drones do their best to blow you out of the sky.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 26, 2025 02:43 PM (Apzx6)

That is what I was picturing. Naval "mothership" drones, like tiny unmanned aircraft carriers, are going to mess with "security through obscurity" logistics at sea. Instead of merely being impractical, jet suits would be suicidal.

Posted by: SciVo at December 26, 2025 02:55 PM (Sy6m/)

61 Only us snooty people can appreciate the genius of Seven Samurai.

Don't you dare try to watch it!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 26, 2025 02:52 PM (GBKbO)

Challenge accepted.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 26, 2025 02:56 PM (dK+Kv)

62 I watched the Chinese movie The Wandering Earth last week. It made mountains of money in China, but ... I don't see why. The effects were (mostly) good and some nice set action set pieces, but the plot was confusing and insanely stupid.

Yes, the movie took seriously the idea that we could escape an exploding sun by ... moving the entire Earth (with everyone still on it) some 4+ light years away to a new solar system, on a journey that would take 2,500 years. Yea ok.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 26, 2025 02:57 PM (iFTx/)

63 https://youtu.be/ikb8CtEK1qQ

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 26, 2025 02:57 PM (6Bc88)

64 We'll be rolling through your neck of the woods in a few hours.
Posted by: Sponge

Safe travels!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 02:57 PM (c115l)

65 Only us snooty people can appreciate the genius of Seven Samurai.

Don't you dare try to watch it!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 26, 2025 02:52 PM

Where does Covenant fall on this scale?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 26, 2025 02:57 PM (0sNs1)

66 Are those Jetpacks Halal? Are they?

Posted by: Her Majesty's Ministry of Islamic Affairs at December 26, 2025 02:57 PM (RP04w)

67 36 anyone remember the Disney movie The Rocketeer?

It was the last good family movie Disney produced.

What you mean, of course, is "first look at Jennifer Connelly's boobies".
Posted by: Archimedes at December 26, 2025 02:46 PM (Riz8t)

To her credit or good luck, she aged well. See the "Top Gun" update a few years back.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at December 26, 2025 02:57 PM (YN34E)

68 49 Only us snooty people can appreciate the genius of Seven Samurai.

Don't you dare try to watch it!
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No problem. I saw "The Magnificent Seven" once and never bothered watching it again. "Seven Samurai" is really long iirc.

All the Kurasawa films I've seen (Yojimbo, Ran, that last movie he did - "Dreams" or something?) all have interesting aspects and off-putting ones. There was a really, really long 47 Ronin film made in two parts I once watched because it was made in Japan during the war and Axis/Soviet propaganda actually interests me. It wasn't made by Kurosawa but managed to be better than anything I'd seen Kurosawa make.

A co-worker once forced me to borrow his copy of "Ikiru" to watch. I got partway through, absolutely fucking hated what I was watching, and then told the coworker I watched the whole thing and hated it. He still tries to get me to borrow shit from him to watch. I'm always "too busy".

Posted by: the lower depths at December 26, 2025 02:57 PM (UdiE9)

69 What could possibly go wrong? Let me count the ways.
First, will women be flying them?

Posted by: Case at December 26, 2025 02:52 PM (G1OIb)

Only in the tactical sammichmaker versions.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 26, 2025 02:57 PM (dK+Kv)

70 There was a jetpack in like the first or second James Bond movie. No special effects, it was a real jetpack, so the technology has been around quite awhile, just not super practical.

Posted by: Methos at December 26, 2025 02:58 PM (vSvIl)

71 Tony Stark was able to build this in a cave! With a box of scraps!

Posted by: Oh noes!! at December 26, 2025 02:59 PM (HcoTw)

72 People bitch about not having jet packs and flying cars yet and then bitch about how bad people drive nowadays.

Did y'all not think this through?

Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 26, 2025 02:59 PM (w3DAr)

73 His His

Those responsible for the misgending our our ( tee hee ) most Serene Soverign have been sacked.

Posted by: His Majesty's Ministry of Islamic Affairs at December 26, 2025 02:59 PM (RP04w)

74 I saw a jet pack guy at the OU/ tx halftime.
Had enough juice to fly the length of the field, circle the goal post and land. Out of fuel.

Posted by: Oh noes!! at December 26, 2025 03:00 PM (HcoTw)

75 Yes, the movie took seriously the idea that we could escape an exploding sun by ... moving the entire Earth (with everyone still on it) some 4+ light years away to a new solar system, on a journey that would take 2,500 years. Yea ok.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 26, 2025 02:57 PM (iFTx/)

Larry Niven's Puppeteers, who are busy moving their five planets away from the Galactic Core Explosion, point and laugh at your amateur effort.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 26, 2025 03:01 PM (Apzx6)

76 5 Having never seen Iron Man, I regard these as borderline too dangerous to use reliably.

Then again, I regard Vespa scoters as too dangerous to use, as well.

Posted by: zombie at December 26, 2025 02:36 PM (oraVG)

>>>

Hey. . . .I lived in Italia for nearly 2 years quite a while ago. I would be tempted to say the same, but the reality is that a good Vespa scooter was a lifeblood fundamental of life

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & Pagan Lefties at December 26, 2025 03:01 PM (WdhrG)

77 There was a jetpack in like the first or second James Bond movie. No special effects, it was a real jetpack, so the technology has been around quite awhile, just not super practical.

Posted by: Methos at December 26, 2025 02:58 PM (vSvIl)

Miniaturization of sensors, CPUs, and DSPs make them more viable than ever. I am not doing a back of the envelope calculation, but gyroscopes and accelerometers alone have to have had at least a 1000x reduction in size and weight, since then.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 26, 2025 03:01 PM (dK+Kv)

78 JetPacks appear to have limited and special usage.
More interesting are the 'batwing' powered parachutes enabeling combat ready personell to jump and glide/fly for miles to a designated destination.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 26, 2025 03:01 PM (tDhVx)

79 49 Only us snooty people can appreciate the genius of Seven Samurai.

Don't you dare try to watch it!
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Thanks. I won't. I dislike snobbery as an art form.

Posted by: whig at December 26, 2025 03:01 PM (WDjG6)

80 "we were promised jet packs"

Posted by: cmeat at December 26, 2025 03:02 PM (R11M+)

81 Thanks. I won't. I dislike snobbery as an art form.
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You must not like much modern art then. Without snob appeal it's just bad children's art (or rebadged pron).

Posted by: the lower depths at December 26, 2025 03:03 PM (UdiE9)

82 77 There was a jetpack in like the first or second James Bond movie. No special effects, it was a real jetpack, so the technology has been around quite awhile, just not super practical.

Posted by: Methos
---

It was real and outstanding. Post Bond movie there were thefts, deaths, and disappearance associated with that jetpack.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 26, 2025 03:03 PM (tDhVx)

83 Then again, I regard Vespa scoters as too dangerous to use, as well.

Posted by: zombie at December 26, 2025 02:36 PM (oraVG)

>>>

Hey. . . .I lived in Italia for nearly 2 years quite a while ago. I would be tempted to say the same, but the reality is that a good Vespa scooter was a lifeblood fundamental of life
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & Pagan Lefties at December 26, 2025 03:01 PM

Y'all are aware that Vespas hold a special place in this blog's mythos, correct?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 26, 2025 03:03 PM (0sNs1)

84

Meet George Jetpack

His widow Jane

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 26, 2025 03:04 PM (pkeXY)

85
Royal Marines. Royal Navy.

How many admirals per jet pack?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 26, 2025 03:05 PM (VWtfl)

86 The UK military's first use of jetpacks in combat will be against UK civilians.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 26, 2025 03:05 PM (HXT0k)

87 83 D'accordo!

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & Pagan Lefties at December 26, 2025 03:05 PM (WdhrG)

88 None of these "personay flying vehicle" jetpack/flyng-car/passenger-drone companies seem tom realize that the existence of people-being-able-to-fly would completely overturn how our society is structured -- because bad people will use the tech too.

Walls? Privacy? Security? Fuggetaoutit.

Every house, no matter how secure, can have its yard/property invaded by burglars.

Every fence can be effortlessly surmounted.

Every prison yard can have prisoners flying away with accomplices in prison breaks enabled by two-person flying vehicles.

Criminals can fly away from the scene of any crime and be gone in a flash.

Privacy will be a thing of the past.

Crime, and paranoias about crime, will skyrocket.

And I haven't even started talking about people crashing to the ground in populated areas or on your roof.

As a result, these types of vehicles will be banned almost soon as they come on the market and become popular or mass-produced.

Hence, these companies are all doomed to fail.

Posted by: zombie at December 26, 2025 03:06 PM (oraVG)

89 84

Meet George Jetpack

His widow Jane

Their non gender specific offspring, Elroy

Posted by: Oh noes!! at December 26, 2025 03:06 PM (HcoTw)

90 personay = personal

Posted by: zombie at December 26, 2025 03:06 PM (oraVG)

91 JetPacks appear to have limited and special usage.
More interesting are the 'batwing' powered parachutes enabeling combat ready personell to jump and glide/fly for miles to a designated destination.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 26, 2025 03:01 PM (tDhVx)

An image of Wiley E Coyote in an ACME "Bat Suit" just popped into my mind.

Posted by: Chuck C at December 26, 2025 03:07 PM (D0HYP)

92 >>>Gomez Addams is not mort. He's almost 96, living in Baltimore.

He's outlived Pugsley and Wednesday.

Posted by: Mark1971 at December 26, 2025 03:07 PM (CNl8/)

93 JetPack problem: limited range due to lack of fuel.

Solution? Strap Joe Biden in with a few cans of baked beans. Endless gas!

New problem: you've got Joe Biden.

Solution: use just the one jetpack as the decoy/first man over the top (i.e. bullet magnet).

Win win!

Posted by: SimoHayek at December 26, 2025 03:07 PM (/ZkOF)

94 The entire Iron Man premise is based on some techno-magic that provides infinite power.
Posted by: Tom Servo

And a techno-magic exoskeleton that's strong enough for him to have his "jets" on his feet, and in the palms of his hands, without breaking his ankles and wrists with all those four-gee-plus maneuvers.

Posted by: mikeski at December 26, 2025 03:07 PM (nhCoE)

95 >>>Gomez Addams is not mort. He's almost 96, living in Baltimore.

He's outlived Pugsley and Wednesday.
Posted by: Mark1971 at December 26, 2025 03:07 PM

What about the Thing that goes up?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 26, 2025 03:08 PM (0sNs1)

96 Found it.
Wile E. Coyote: Acme Batman Suit (1956)
https://youtu.be/QHDO78QfLbE

Posted by: Chuck C at December 26, 2025 03:08 PM (D0HYP)

97 An image of Wiley E Coyote in an ACME "Bat Suit" just popped into my mind.
Posted by: Chuck C

*flap*

*flap*

*flap flap flap flapflapflap spaz flapflap*

*plummet*

Posted by: mikeski made sure there was an L for every F at December 26, 2025 03:09 PM (nhCoE)

98 Total, max duration flight time of any of these silly contraptions is always less than or equal to the longest unedited clip length in any video. Like 30 seconds.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 26, 2025 03:10 PM (3uBP9)

99 And a techno-magic exoskeleton that's strong enough for him to have his "jets" on his feet, and in the palms of his hands, without breaking his ankles and wrists with all those four-gee-plus maneuvers.
Posted by: mikeski at December 26, 2025 03:07 PM (nhCoE)

I'm gonna need you to get all the way off my back!

Posted by: The Pitch Meeting Screenwriter at December 26, 2025 03:10 PM (RP04w)

100 As a result, these types of vehicles will be banned almost soon as they come on the market and become popular or mass-produced.

Hence, these companies are all doomed to fail.

Posted by: zombie at December 26, 2025 03:06 PM (oraVG)

Everything you just wrote is a reason for governments to buy them while banning them for everyone else. So, reliable customer with practically unlimited funds = success.

Posted by: Methos at December 26, 2025 03:10 PM (vSvIl)

101 If jetpacks are to be used by the hoi polloi, maybe investing in flak towers and artillery would be a gold mine. Guess copying the old German 88s would be overkill though.

Posted by: Punt Gun? at December 26, 2025 03:10 PM (oftw2)

102 Thing was usually played by Ted Cassidy who played Lurch unless there was a scene where both characters appeared.

Posted by: Mark1971 at December 26, 2025 03:11 PM (CNl8/)

103 41 Posted by: zombie at December 26, 2025 02:36 PM (oraVG)

I think scooters - or electric bikes or whatever - they're called the on the ground are unsafe- at least around here they mostly seem like the might be being used by illegal aliens since you don't have a license to get one.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2025 02:49 PM (7RYym)

Bottom line: I wouldn't try that out in the country.

At least here in Oregon, while the law might not be enforced, you do need a valid driver's license to operate any motorized vehicle on the road above a certain level of power, no exceptions.

I forget the precise wording of how the power limit was defined, but the gist I took away from reading it was that if your license was suspended and you tried to commute on an electric vehicle (whether bicycle or other), either it would be illegal, or it would be too weak to keep you from getting slammed into from behind on the freeway -- let alone when going uphill on a winding country road with blind turns, at night, in the snow.

Posted by: SciVo at December 26, 2025 03:11 PM (Sy6m/)

104 Border security? Gone.

Human traffickers/coyotes/smugglers could hop over the 2,000 Mexico/US border effortlessly.

Banned.

Posted by: zombie at December 26, 2025 03:11 PM (oraVG)

105 Heard thing was last seen giving truck stop handys for spare change

Posted by: Oh noes!! at December 26, 2025 03:11 PM (HcoTw)

106 Royal Marines. Royal Navy.
How many admirals per jet pack?

186...They use them to go to mosque when they hear the call to prayer and to their rape gang meetings.

Posted by: The BBC at December 26, 2025 03:11 PM (R/m4+)

107 Every time you see a cut away, like 7 seconds in, just go ahead and assume that's a needed refuel.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 26, 2025 03:12 PM (3uBP9)

108 Crime, and paranoias about crime, will skyrocket.
Posted by: zombie

ISWYDT.

Posted by: mikeski at December 26, 2025 03:12 PM (nhCoE)

109 Hey. . . .I lived in Italia for nearly 2 years quite a while ago. I would be tempted to say the same, but the reality is that a good Vespa scooter was a lifeblood fundamental of life
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & Pagan Lefties at December 26, 2025 03:01 PM

Y'all are aware that Vespas hold a special place in this blog's mythos, correct?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 26, 2025 03:03 PM (0sNs1)

When we were kids we threw one off a bridge that went over railroad tracks, lol. Not on the tracks, but onto a paved area 10-20 yards to the side of them. A friend of mine had it, it was given to him by his neighbor. It was seized and we found a peach pit in the varnish smelling gas tank, a frigging peach pit. My friend says, hey lets throw it off the bridge, which was right around the corner. We rolled it up and heaved it over. We still laugh about that.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 26, 2025 03:13 PM (snZF9)

110 SciVo - it comes down to the difference between "driver's license" and "driving privileges." Even if a scooter doesn't require a license, it may qualify as a vehicle that is illegal to operate if your driving privileges are suspended or revoked.

Lots of people miss that and are surprised when they get a ticket.

Posted by: PabloD at December 26, 2025 03:14 PM (aNzvb)

111 Silver spot at $77.89 per oz. By the way for those who claim that Silver is not an investment but a "speculation". Every "investment" that ANYONE can make is a speculation. Tell me how safe an investment the stock market was in 1929 or 2008. Every investment has risk, as does doing nothing with your money.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 26, 2025 03:15 PM (Da7Vv)

112 These devices will serve a greater purpose for war fighters when ACME releases the portable hole.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 26, 2025 03:16 PM (nljXp)

113 100 As a result, these types of vehicles will be banned almost soon as they come on the market and become popular or mass-produced.

Hence, these companies are all doomed to fail.

Posted by: zombie at December 26, 2025 03:06 PM (oraVG)

Everything you just wrote is a reason for governments to buy them while banning them for everyone else. So, reliable customer with practically unlimited funds = success.
Posted by: Methos

Yeah, as you said: These will be used exclusively by the military. Banned for civilians, just like a lot of military tech is banned for civilians.

But the whole reason people get excited about these things is that they all imagine that they themselves, i.e. the average person, will finslly get our "flying cars", or be able to "become Iron Man."

Ain't gonna happen.

If these advances were all just honestly characterized as just "the military is getting a new toy, off-limits to you," then the public generally wouldn't get excited or even care.

Posted by: zombie at December 26, 2025 03:17 PM (oraVG)

114 Damn. We are not far away from Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare becoming a reality.

Posted by: Cool. And scary. at December 26, 2025 03:17 PM (TbWk/)

115 copying the old German 88s would be overkill though.

Pianos?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 26, 2025 03:19 PM (Kt19C)

116 110 SciVo - it comes down to the difference between "driver's license" and "driving privileges." Even if a scooter doesn't require a license, it may qualify as a vehicle that is illegal to operate if your driving privileges are suspended or revoked.

Lots of people miss that and are surprised when they get a ticket.
Posted by: PabloD at December 26, 2025 03:14 PM (aNzvb)

Frankly a lot of those laws are gay and retarded, and designed primarily for revenue generation.

Posted by: And for pretext stops, but that's another issue at December 26, 2025 03:19 PM (TbWk/)

117 And imagine gangs, whether just urban street thugs, or international cartels, with this tech.

Chaos would ensue.

Good script for a remake of 1979's The Warriors, though.

Posted by: zombie at December 26, 2025 03:20 PM (oraVG)

118 Jetpacks are preferable to flying cars, for sure.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2025 03:20 PM (77rzZ)

119
You know what would be a great comedic bit?

Someone reviving the Yakov Smirnoff act, but instead of making about USA vs Russia, he makes it about Red vs Blue states.

In your state, government fear you. In my state, you fear government. (laughter)

Posted by: ...Soothsayer... at December 26, 2025 03:21 PM (CvEXk)

120 Elite special forces troops being dropped behind enemy lines on covert missions are to ditch their traditional parachutes in favour of strap-on stealth wings.

The lightweight carbon fibre mono-wings will allow them to jump from high altitudes and then glide 120 miles or more before landing - making them almost impossible to spot, as their aircraft can avoid flying anywhere near the target.
_DM 2006 no pic

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 26, 2025 03:21 PM (tDhVx)

121 Posted by: SciVo at December 26, 2025 03:11 PM (Sy6m

I don't think the cops are checking any licenses here for those things, in fact nearby we have newly painted bike lanes which take up a 1/4 of the road - I assume not to benefit regular bikes- but the motorized scooter crowd.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2025 03:21 PM (ZeH0U)

122
Are those stupid college bowl games gonna start now?

Posted by: ...Soothsayer... at December 26, 2025 03:22 PM (CvEXk)

123 You think the border is hard to secure now...

Otoh, think of antiaircraft like a Bofors set up at the border...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 26, 2025 03:22 PM (bss/y)

124 If jetpacks are to be used by the hoi polloi, maybe investing in flak towers and artillery would be a gold mine. Guess copying the old German 88s would be overkill though.

Posted by: Punt Gun? at December 26, 2025 03:10 PM

2cm flak should do the trick. These things can't fly very high. Plus you can put out a $hit ton of bullets that can also double as drone killers.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 26, 2025 03:23 PM (0N4FZ)

125 Gomez Addams is not mort. He's almost 96, living in Baltimore.
Posted by: ...Soothsayer...

Wow. Must be the last surviving cast member, then.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2025 03:23 PM (77rzZ)

126 It would be a bitch to be wearing one of those jetpacks and have it fail over water.

No thanks.

Posted by: n at December 26, 2025 03:24 PM (sXuPD)

127 126 It would be a bitch to be wearing one of those jetpacks and have it fail over water.

No thanks.
Posted by: n at December 26, 2025 03:24 PM (sXuPD)

I'd think it would be just as bad as asphalt.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 26, 2025 03:25 PM (bss/y)

128
What's this?

Don Stroud's father is...

Jackie Coogan?

Never knew that.

Posted by: ...Soothsayer... at December 26, 2025 03:25 PM (CvEXk)

129 nd imagine gangs, whether just urban street thugs, or international cartels, with this tech.

Chaos would ensue.

you have to spend more time shooting skeet or pheasants, no worries here.

Posted by: n at December 26, 2025 03:26 PM (sXuPD)

130 It would be a bitch to be wearing one of those jetpacks and have it fail over water.

No thanks.
Posted by: n

Maybe it could be designed in such a way that it could be used as a flotation device.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2025 03:26 PM (77rzZ)

131 Anyone else used to read Schlock Mercenary?

Legs:...do you know what we call flying soldiers on the battlefield?

Tino: Air support?

Legs: Skeet.

Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at December 26, 2025 03:27 PM (R3yzU)

132 Joe don baker who was villain in dalton bonf and a sidekick with bosnan as well as glover the flaming spectre minion died this year

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 26, 2025 03:27 PM (bXbFr)

133 ‘Hand me over my 12 gauge with steel # one buck, Rolf.’

Posted by: Eromero at December 26, 2025 03:28 PM (Slgjz)

134 It would be a bitch to be wearing one of those jetpacks and have it fail over water.
No thanks.
Posted by: n

Maybe it could be designed in such a way that it could be used as a flotation device.
Posted by: Bulg

If you don't just go for lighter-than-water, but lighter-than-air, you wouldn't even need much jet power!

Posted by: a hot-air balloon at December 26, 2025 03:28 PM (nhCoE)

135 Maybe it could be designed in such a way that it could be used as a flotation device.
Posted by: Bu

nah, those two seals drowned because they did not have enough buoyancy for the seal with gear when boarding form a ship, how much worse would it be with these added in. not to mention the impact injuries.

these have been around for years they are gimmicks.

Posted by: n at December 26, 2025 03:28 PM (sXuPD)

136 Don Stroud's father is...

Jackie Coogan?

Never knew that.
Posted by: ...Soothsayer...

According to Wiki, it's "vaudeville actor Clarence Stroud (of 'The Stroud Twins' team)."

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2025 03:29 PM (77rzZ)

137 Our church has AA meetings and the lost drivers license drunk hobo crowd descends at dusk on their electric bikes and scooters like an Easy Rider scene.

Posted by: NCKate at December 26, 2025 03:29 PM (uQzkA)

138 Well, it isn't an air car but it will do.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2025 03:29 PM (8o16y)

139 When do we get flying Vespas?

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2025 03:32 PM (77rzZ)

140 The mens clothing industry is engaging in
open enfaginaztion
now. It is nearly impossible to find khakis / chinos that do not have some faggy girl fabric such as spandex sewn into them.

Men do not wear stretchy pants outside the gym.

Posted by: n at December 26, 2025 03:33 PM (sXuPD)

141 What's this?

Don Stroud's father is...

Jackie Coogan?

Never knew that.
Posted by: ...Soothsayer... at December 26, 2025 03:25 PM (CvEXk)

His dad was Clarence Stroud. A vaudeville actor.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 26, 2025 03:34 PM (5xuJ/)

142 96 Found it.
Wile E. Coyote: Acme Batman Suit (1956)
https://youtu.be/QHDO78QfLbE
Posted by: Chuck C at December 26, 2025 03:08 PM (D0HYP)

So much greatness, right there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)

143
I don't think the cops are checking any licenses here for those things, in fact nearby we have newly painted bike lanes which take up a 1/4 of the road - I assume not to benefit regular bikes- but the motorized scooter crowd.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Bike Lanes? FTS!

Seen them make "road improvements" by taking out fully paved shoulders that used to double as right turn lanes by putting dragon teeth curbing in to separate the travel lane from the shoulder. Then label the shoulder as a bicycle lanes.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 26, 2025 03:35 PM (/lPRQ)

144
Joe don baker who was villain in dalton bonf and a sidekick with bosnan as well as glover the flaming spectre minion died this year
Posted by: Miguel cervantes

MITCHELL!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 26, 2025 03:36 PM (pkeXY)

145 Elite special forces troops being dropped behind enemy lines on covert missions are to ditch their traditional parachutes in favour of strap-on stealth wings.

The lightweight carbon fibre mono-wings will allow them to jump from high altitudes and then glide 120 miles or more before landing - making them almost impossible to spot, as their aircraft can avoid flying anywhere near the target.
_DM 2006 no pic
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 26, 2025 03:21 PM (tDhVx)

***

Hmmmm...
That's a long way to go into enemy territory without some way of getting out.
Unless you aren't coming out.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 26, 2025 03:37 PM (2WIwB)

146
Maybe adopted son, by marriage, then.

IMDB is my sauce for this dubious info.

Posted by: ...Soothsayer... at December 26, 2025 03:37 PM (CvEXk)

147 I do not have enough words to express my contempt for bike lanes, or the people who use them.

If you're an adult, the only respectable means of land transport are two legs, or four (or more) wheels.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2025 03:37 PM (77rzZ)

148 Ski Mt. Everest..........

https://is.gd/DVZ0EB

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)

149
If you're an adult, the only respectable means of land transport are two legs, or four (or more) wheels.
Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2025 03:37 PM (77rzZ)

I miss my 3-wheeler.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)

150 Yes, the movie took seriously the idea that we could escape an exploding sun by ... moving the entire Earth (with everyone still on it) some 4+ light years away to a new solar system, on a journey that would take 2,500 years. Yea ok.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 26, 2025 02:57 PM (iFTx/)

Larry Niven's Puppeteers, who are busy moving their five planets away from the Galactic Core Explosion, point and laugh at your amateur effort.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 26, 2025 03:01 PM (Apzx6)
________

Yes, but the Puppeteers are insanely technologically advanced. In the movie, it's regular humans of about our current technological capability moving the Earth. And yea, the book on which the movie is based seemed clearly to rip off Niven's idea of moving planets to escape a solar explosion.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 26, 2025 03:38 PM (iFTx/)

151 >>>Having never seen Iron Man, I regard these as borderline too dangerous to use reliably.

The first Iron Man movie is pre Disney and holds up well to subsequent viewings. Somewhat politically incorrect like when he lights up a jihadi outpost with built in flame throwers and burns alive many terrorists.

Posted by: Max Power at December 26, 2025 03:39 PM (Qo/XF)

152 Flying cars are also bs. The tech isn't that difficult for various definitions of flying car. But the type certificate, manufacturing certificate, air traffic control, all of that is the big problem and no one has any plans to touch it.

The two biggest flight innovations in the future will probably be super sonic flight over land and air taxis from outlying feeder ports to central hubs. There are groups actively working the regulations for both.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 26, 2025 03:39 PM (3uBP9)

153 I do not have enough words to express my contempt for bike lanes, or the people who use them.

If you're an adult, the only respectable means of land transport are two legs, or four (or more) wheels.

Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2025 03:37 PM (77rzZ)

Ripping by a bike lane on a harley with turnout drag pipes is always worth a chuckle.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 26, 2025 03:39 PM (snZF9)

154
Turbofan jet packs can fly for 10 minutes. The efficiency of the system is deceased by the high velocity of the jet exhaust. The purpose of the engine is to supply momentum -- how much energy is expended doing that depends on exhaust velocity. A larger mass of slower-moving air is better.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 26, 2025 03:40 PM (azNOR)

155
The two biggest flight innovations in the future will probably be super sonic flight over land and air taxis from outlying feeder ports to central hubs. There are groups actively working the regulations for both.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 26, 2025 03:39 PM (3uBP9)

They're supposed to be bringing the Concorde back.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 03:40 PM (Zz0t1)

156
Loni Anderson is the ghost of Christmas past

https://is.gd/fE7jj3

Posted by: ...Soothsayer... at December 26, 2025 03:40 PM (CvEXk)

157 It would be a bitch to be wearing one of those jetpacks and have it fail over water.
No thanks.
Posted by: n

I noticed that the "rifles" the jetpackers are carrying appear to be inert toys. Good thing, too. Can you imagine the paperwork you'd have to do if you lost a real gun in the ocean?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 26, 2025 03:40 PM (Apzx6)

158 I noticed that the "rifles" the jetpackers are carrying appear to be inert toys. Good thing, too. Can you imagine the paperwork you'd have to do if you lost a real gun in the ocean?
Posted by: Idaho

especially for the brits

Posted by: n at December 26, 2025 03:41 PM (2l5ed)

159 From russia with love was probably the first film with jet pack

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 26, 2025 03:41 PM (bXbFr)

160

noood

Posted by: ...Soothsayer... at December 26, 2025 03:41 PM (CvEXk)

161 If you're an adult, the only respectable means of land transport are two legs, or four (or more) wheels.
Posted by: Bulg at December 26, 2025 03:37 PM (77rzZ)

I miss my 3-wheeler.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)

I want a motorcycle again. Having sports cars though means that my brain always asks: 'Why do you need TWO impractical means of conveyance?'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 26, 2025 03:42 PM (bss/y)

162 Limbaugh used to do a hilarious imitation of Ross Perot.

Perot would often get his message out via the Larry King Show. To wit:

But Mr. Perot, what will you do about global warming?

Larry, if we've got to move the Earth to another part of the Solar System, just do it.
Whatever it takes Larry. Just do it.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 26, 2025 03:42 PM (2Ez/1)

163 >>> They're supposed to be bringing the Concorde back.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 03:40 PM (Zz0t1)

The problems are all regulatory in so far as flight over land. Specifically noise abatement, and allowed noise levels. There are methods for dealing with that and there needs to be research on the public perception of noise levels. And this is all in work.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 26, 2025 03:42 PM (3uBP9)

164 As an old git what is too broke for a motor vehicle, bike lanes just piss off drivers.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 26, 2025 03:42 PM (Kt19C)

165 Mayor Franpsycho promises to install TWO speed cushions in each bike lane for every one speed cushion in each auto lane.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2025 03:42 PM (I8Tp0)

166 As an old git what is too broke for a motor vehicle, bike lanes just piss off drivers.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 26, 2025 03:42 PM (Kt19C)
===]

That's a feature not a bug.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2025 03:43 PM (I8Tp0)

167 JetPacks appear to have limited and special usage.
More interesting are the 'batwing' powered parachutes enabeling combat ready personell to jump and glide/fly for miles to a designated destination.

Posted by: Braenyard

HAHO with a 50 mile away insertion point.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 03:43 PM (c115l)

168 Brian Dennehy never starred in a jetpack movie. That pesky weight/thrust problem. He would have made an excellent flak tower, though.

Posted by: Casting Couch Would Be Large, Too at December 26, 2025 03:43 PM (oftw2)

169 Yeah tonys energy weapon seems impractical phased plasma

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at December 26, 2025 03:43 PM (bXbFr)

170 Well.

Imma walk on the boat and then treat
Myself to lunch on the waterfront.

I’ll be at the bar if anyone wants to join me.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 26, 2025 03:44 PM (SAKKj)

171 They're supposed to be bringing the Concorde back.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 26, 2025 03:40 PM (Zz0t1)

The problems are all regulatory in so far as flight over land. Specifically noise abatement, and allowed noise levels. There are methods for dealing with that and there needs to be research on the public perception of noise levels. And this is all in work.
Posted by: banana Dream

When DFW Airport was built, there was a 15 to 20 mile buffer zone around the airport.
It needs to be made a law, when an airport is built, there is an automatic 20 mile buffer zone with no home being built inside that zone.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 26, 2025 03:45 PM (c115l)

172 I’ll be at the bar if anyone wants to join me.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 26, 2025 03:44
-----------------

Gimme a sec to put my pants on.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 26, 2025 03:47 PM (bQ4nt)

173 It needs to be made a law, when an airport is built, there is an automatic 20 mile buffer zone with no home being built inside that zone.
Posted by: rickb223

Crap like this gets my goat!

Posted by: Airport-Adjacent Land Tycoon at December 26, 2025 03:48 PM (oftw2)

174 I want a motorcycle again. Having sports cars though means that my brain always asks: 'Why do you need TWO impractical means of conveyance?'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 26, 2025 03:42 PM (bss/y)

because..'merica.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 26, 2025 03:49 PM (snZF9)

175 As an old git what is too broke for a motor vehicle, bike lanes just piss off drivers.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 26, 2025 03:42 PM (Kt19C)
===]

That's a feature not a bug.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2025 03:43
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Best was when they put bike lanes here the sewer grates were parallel to the curb. The few bikers tires would drop into the grates and they'd take a hard dive to the pavement.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 26, 2025 03:52 PM (bQ4nt)

176 Best was when they put bike lanes here the sewer grates were parallel to the curb. The few bikers tires would drop into the grates and they'd take a hard dive to the pavement.
Posted by: olddog

Hahahahaha
We have had a couple bicyclists sue the city after they crashed HARD on the grated drawbridge decks. The designated bike lane is cement. But they chose to ride with the cars and wiped out bad.

Yes. They won million dollar Settlements.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 26, 2025 03:57 PM (QcDuD)

177 Yes, yes … that flying stuff is all well and good, but how well will it (does it) stand up against heavy automatic weapons fire from multiple source points … ? Hmmm … ? This appears to be best suited for application against not necessarily 'soft' targets, but targets that are unable to counter incursion with heavy weapons fire. Wait … how many of those kinda points are there again … ? Impressive, but does not seem yet 'Ready for Prime Thyme' …

Posted by: Dr_No at December 26, 2025 04:00 PM (ayRl+)

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