Wheres My Jetpack? it's HERE AT LAST!

[Jeffbert]

Wheres My Jetpack? A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future that Never Arrived by Daniel H. Wilson MOURNS about the lack of what was then, the expected future developments, & up until very recently, jetpacks were (obviously) among those things. The jetpacks featured in a James Bond film & LOST IN SPACE had a flight time so short as to make them impractical for anything but TV shows, movies, & air shows.

But NEW ATLAS (formerly GIZMAG) just published a page about a new jetpack whose flight time, while still relatively short, a mere 10 minutes maximum, is long enough to at least entice those with sufficient money to buy them. JB-10 Jetpacks now on sale to "well qualified buyers" – but there's also a chance for the rest of us

 

[BAYLOR]

Jets packs cool but the one thing worrisome about them is running out of fusel in mid flight and high up.

 

[farntfar]

Fear not.
You wouldn't be worrying about it for long.

 

[J Riff]

We watched a guy fly around with one, in the mid-sixties. I was wondering when they wood work the bugs out.

 

[Jeffbert]

I think the new one is equipped with a parachute.

 

[BAYLOR]

It's 2016 , where are the personal Warp Drive Interstellar jet packs we were promised?

 

[HanaBi]

Forget all the faffing about with jet packs! Where's my transporter thingy? I want to be beamed up <Scotty> rather than adorn myself with a silly jet pack and flying over the heads of people

 

[BAYLOR]

Forget all the faffing about with jet packs! Where's my transporter thingy? I want to be beamed up <Scotty> rather than adorn myself with a silly jet pack and flying over the heads of people

Im not sure Id want Transporter technology. I keep thinking about The film The Fly .

 

[HanaBi]

Im not sure Id want Transporter technology. I keep thinking about The film The Fly .

An even worse thought: Baylor's body ending up with Donald Trump's head during some Transporter "blue screen of death" mixup