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Fun thought experiment is imagine the jetpack had infinite fuel and was 100% safe what would you do with it? For me I'd probably just go get a slice of pizza h

• blisterpeanuts 10y ago
  If you include a very effective collision avoidance system, then I'm in. I'd use it for frickin' everything. Commuting would be so nice without having to sit in traffic. Eastern Massachusetts rush hours are brutal. Just zoom straight to your destination using an "as the crow flies" route, and rely on the auto-pilot and collision avoidance to take care of the actual steering while you check your email. 20 miles in 12 minutes. Sweet. I would just be slightly concerned about collisions with birds. By the way, if fuel is unlimited, then we could have flying restaurants. They'd have names like High Altitude Café, Cloud Starbucks, etc.
  • pmalynin 10y ago
    Cloud...computing also?
• losteric 10y ago
  Fly through canyons, dance around clouds, land on skyscrapers, troll some eagles...
  • nickcano 10y ago
    That's interesting, I wonder what happens if you take one of the current prototypes and hover off the ledge of a canyon... Will you drop suddenly and go splat, or will you keep altitude? Intuition says the former, but I'd like to know objectively.
    • losteric 10y ago
      If you're flying high enough before going over the cliff, you'd keep hovering... it's no different than a helicopter. These jets can definitely fly that high. That said, if you're not flying high enough... if it's just the jet pushing air against the ground... you will go splat.