Hoverboards - Flying Saucers - Jet Packs

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The discussion revolves around the feasibility and design of hoverboards, flying saucers, and jet packs, exploring their potential for practical use and the implications of such technologies. The scope includes conceptual ideas, speculative designs, and societal impacts.

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Main Points Raised

  • Some participants express skepticism about the practicality of jet packs, referencing a TV program that purportedly debunked their design.
  • One participant suggests that flying saucers might have a chance of working, indicating a belief in their potential viability.
  • Concerns are raised about the safety and chaos that could ensue if ducted fan designs were to be used for legal transport, highlighting potential hazards like people getting stuck in trees or power lines.
  • There is a question posed about the rationale behind spending large sums of money on technologies that some believe will never work, indicating a mix of skepticism and curiosity about consumer behavior in this context.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants exhibit a mix of skepticism and curiosity regarding the technologies discussed, with no clear consensus on their feasibility or potential risks. Multiple competing views remain on the practicality of hoverboards, flying saucers, and jet packs.

Contextual Notes

Participants express varying assumptions about the feasibility of the technologies, with some relying on anecdotal evidence from media portrayals and others focusing on hypothetical scenarios regarding safety and consumer spending.

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Hoverboards - Flying Saucers - Jet Packs
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I think the TV program "Mythbusters" debunked the JetPack design, but why should they have all the fun?

Come on guys and gals, rip these guys a new one. :lol:

I think the Flying Saucer actually has a chance of working (smile).http://www.futurehorizons.net/HVR2.jpg

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This isn't really an unexplained phenomenon, so moved to GD.
 
Ivan Seeking said:
This isn't really an unexplained phenomenon, so moved to GD.
Then explain to me how someone could spend $49.95 to $9,000.00 on something that will never work (smile).
 
I liked the look of the ducted fans, but if they ever came on the market for legal transport
can you imagine the mayhem, people dangling from power lines here there and every where, stuck in trees, dangling from over head road signs, hanging out with boys??
 
kach22i said:
Then explain to me how someone could spend $49.95 to $9,000.00 on something that will never work (smile).

*points at Iraq war*

(frown)
 

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