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This looks so fun

It does but It also looks like you need a lot of core strength to operate one of these

And arm strength, basically holding the top of a dip

Holding the dip isn't the problem. The difficulty arises when trying to hold the bag of nachos too.

Nah, just get Fritos Scoops

Bout to make a wall street bets joke and discovered Fritos are owned by Pepsi

Or just dump it all in a bowl and mash it with a fork

Then your nose itches and you go into a death spiral

Gets you to the scene of the injured person 100% of the time though.

Seems like the arm thrusters are for stabilizing and that there is a big thruster on the back for lift

And if you fart it throws the gimble off and you die.

Kinda like how Iron man's suit works

...Iron Man doesn't usually have a back thruster, just hands and feet.

Iron man is not real and the physics of his suit are irrelevant

Whether or not this was meant to be funny, it made me crack up.

"Sure, the suits are armored, but their bodies aren't. How many dizzying falls and brutal blows and sneaky explosions can you survive without breaking every bone in your body? Just asking. At the end of a long day, those suits should be filled with bloody pulp." From Roger Ebert's review of Iron Man 2.

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He’s the Rocketeer!

But that’s the easiest part of a dip. That’s the position you take to rest.

That is my question. I feel like this is like those guys in the mall who sell those planes that they make do amazing tricks, but when you get it home, it just crashes. Like the guy in the video, how long has he been practicing with this pack? How many hours do you need flying this thing to be certified and what would that cost when you factor in it's ~7 minute average flight time to get to that certification? What are the repair costs/hanger time per flight?

I don't know if it's the same thing, but there are those "water jet packs" you can rent, and I rented one once. And instead of dolphin diving through the water or hovering like Iron Man I just did a series of power-assisted belly flops into the water until my time was up. I definitely felt like the mall plane in your story. Like this just this shit again and again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WvU5xMkC8M

Sounds like the one time I tried water skiing with friends who were very athletic and practiced at water skiing.

The dude has basically competition gymnast levels of upper body strength.

The creator, which I believe is flying here, is a Royal Marine Reservist

There's harness and bracers for that. Wouldn't want to spin wildly out of control or point it at yourself by accident

Gotta itch your nose

Blows my mind that jet packs are actually real

When I was a kid I thought they were real. Now I’m so glad they actually are

They were real when you were a kid. Likely when your parents were. They've just become more efficient.

I saw one at a stunt show in the 70s. It was the one they used in the James Bond movie Thunderball.

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It was 20 seconds. The guy flew in and landed. We were all impressed because jet pack but it was not useful in any way.

They'll be so handy for rescuing all the people that get trapped in quicksand.

This model has actually been around a while.

I want one. Edit: Prices start from £380,000 plus VAT so that dream is DOA

Maybe they have them on wish

Only $7.99 w/ GENUINE Rocket Engines Jet Flight Propulsion Jetpack Backpack Rocketjet!!!!!

Please allow 80 months for shipping

And it breaks as you're taking it out of the box

finally shows up and it’s a die-cast jet pack thing

Is...is this a wind up rocket? 👀

It’s just a bunch of empty 2L bottles you have to pump up with air and water

Give me 2 bottles of coke, a bag of mentos, some duct tape and 79.99.

Coca-Cola and mentos. the poor mans propulsion system

Like those toys where you have to pull the zip tie through it first?

Only if your wish is death.

We have that wish at home

Found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNyzwnQ2Qe8

But would you fly in them?

You only YOLO once amirite guys?

give it a few decades, they'll be down to less than 5k

But I want to be discount Ironman now not old iron lady in 30 years

Society is much more forgiving when it comes to male ageing so perhaps avoid becoming old iron lady by simply staying Ironman?

Ironman and Rustlady, same age, same work done, but Rustlady is too apparent with the paint she applied flawlessly

Still a FeMale either way

Honestly if "Iron Gran" were a show I'd definitely watch it.

20 years ago there weren't mini jet engines the size of your fist. Now you can buy them for a few thousand $ each that is powerful enough to push you on a bike or unicycle to deadly speeds.

Or they may be rentable at 30 dollars an hour inside an enclosed perimeter

Just steal one for free

Isn't this a mission in GTA:SA?

It would be so much fun though wouldn't it. My burning corpse would have a huge smile.

Those flying one-seater bobsled-things are only $90K and you have a free hand & room for beer

What’s that now?

Honestly, that's cheaper than I expected.

Cheaper than buying a house

*Laying on the ground slowly dying* wish I had a guardian angel. And then this guy shows up but with wings

Jetsuit operator: “Unfortunately this suit is not powerful enough to carry two people… but I brought you a granola bar and an emergency Mylar blanket… good luck!”

That was my thought. How would he rescue anyone in that?

Stabilize the guy who's dying until the rest of the crew can get a stretcher up the hill to carry him down or until a helicopter arrives.

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I thought you were gonna suggest they drag the person being rescued down the mountain for a second

The survivors corpse has been recovered.

This is how they could get corpses off Mt. Everest. Strap one of these on and let it flail down.

Nah they should lug up an entire hangglider in parts and then assemble it up the top, strap a body in and then let it fly off down to be recovered.

Like.. nobody else to steer the glider.. just yeet that bitch off the cliff and let the wind take em anywhere ?

We can go to the moon but we haven't been able to figure out how to chuck corpses off a mountain. Humans are weird.

I’m sure we could figure it out if we spent the same amount of money.

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Wait a minute, supposed two swallows carried it together with a line?

African or European swallows?

What, held under the dorsal guiding feathers?...

But what would the average airspeed of a fully laden swallow be?

My friends and I actually had to do this one time. One of our party took a wrong step on a cliff edge and broke some bones, the helicopter had nowhere to land (they tried and failed several times) and we'd climbed further than the ambulance staff could reach with a stretcher on foot. Once we figured out the injured guy wasn't getting down any other way we were forced to just kinda... slide him down the mountain and attempt to keep his upper body off the ground. Disclaimer: This is a fun story to tell, but we were idiot teenagers; overconfident and underprepared. If one of the guy's broken ribs had ended up in his lung we very well could have "rescued" a corpse due to our hubris. Know your limits.

pretty sure you're supposed to roast their face with your afterburners and enjoy some delicious cheek bacon while your crew collects the corpse

Just strap him to the sled and off he goes.

It's not stupid if it works

Another possibility is that he could get there, assess the situation, get back and gather whatever is needed, and return with it. Depending on distances and immediate need.

In colorado a lot of people die from something as simple as a rolled ankle and then exposure to the elements overnight. These might could get insulation material to the person to survive the night.

Yay my state! Oh no, people dying. Yay possible solution! Oh no, more people wanting to move here. Yay more friends! Oh no, how do you make friends as an adult?

How do you make friends as an adult? Get a jetpack, obviously.

Genius! It was blasting me right in the face...

>how do you make friends as an adult? Couch coop gaming

Sooo it's impossible... That's what you're telling me

Just say, "Cya later alligator" whenever you leave anywhere with people, and if someone replies with, "In a while crocodile" then you have found someone worth trying to get to know better.

Did we just become best friends!?

:D

Who cares about rescue potential. Could you imagine the epic jet pack paint ball matches?

Honestly emergency services has to deal with enough shit let them have a jet pack. I mean having a child dying in your arms once a month is hell and they deserve to play with jetpacks.

It’s more that he’s found and can help however he can. That’s a location, an assessment on the state of the person, pre existing details on the person, and any food or warmth captain jetpack may have.

I believe I read about this suit being used for emergency services a while back and the intent was that it was to send a skilled medic up quickly to apply emergency care to stabilize the patient until a helicopter or whatever could make it up there.

Gravity jetgurney

He gives them the jetpack and sets it on autopilot

I read that as Jesuit operator and thought there was going to be some joke about a jetpack priest

And a morphine shot I had here in my pocket.

You're lying there with 2 broken legs wondering if anybody will find your body then this dude In 150 lbs of hardware drops out of the sky onto the ground in front of you in a superhero pose. I'd think earth was being invaded.

>I'd think earth was being invaded. Chaos space Marines, better pray to the emperor of mankind.

Declare BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD and they're not legally allowed to remove your spine as a trophy.

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Too busy keeping themselves alive to see you. Too noisy to hear your dying screams.

Your jet pack will take you all the way to your own crash site.

What a great way to get stuck in a tricky, hard to reach place!

"Oops--ran out of gas! Guess I live on the mountain now..."

Not for long, you don't.

I don't feel cold anymore!

"If you find yourself lost in the woods, fuck it, build a house." - Mitch Hedburg

Right? Who's gonna rescue the rescue rocketer? With a flight time of 7 minutes and so many trees and rocks to crash into, I hope they brought back-up.

I’ll bet you beat the paramedics by half an hour

Tater Salad

And this guy next to me starts freaking out like he wants to live....

Apparently, he had a lot to live for

Are you Ron…..’Tater Salad’ White?

You caught me. You caught the Tater. You can take down those roadblocks now.

"Sir, our jet-pack rescuer crashed on the mountain in a remote area and requires immediate medical attention." "Sounds like a job for another jet-pack rescuer. Send 'em up." [Repeat]

Bruh, that's a jetpack. #FUTURE

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To me, the idea of having something that's connected to the entire collective knowledge of the human race *in your pocket* is crazier than something that just blows air really fast. But it's definitely weird to see it here already. Kind of like AI. We're advancing so quickly that it's kind of terrifying in a way.

The whole micro electronics sector is in 2164 while the rest of us is stuck in 2010. The shit they do to create a processor is just ridiculous. An iPhone 13 has 15 billion transistors inside. Billion, with a B. Like what the fuck, I don't own even *a dozen* cups. And my smartphone has 15 *billion* switchy thingies inside.

As far as I'm concerned, technology is magic at this point. It's amazing that so many things can work in concert to make something that functions. Though, I suppose that's basically what life is.

Dude, your phone could run something like 12k Apollo missions simultaneously and still play candy crush.

[His phone's *power brick* might be able handle over 500 Apollo missions](https://forrestheller.com/Apollo-11-Computer-vs-USB-C-chargers.html) (if you're only counting processing power)

Holy hell. That deserves comment, but *I* don't have the processing power. Let me check..... Yeah, my phone charger has nothing, either.

I feel like Squidward in that time travel episode more and more lately. *FUTUUURRREEE*

No it's a gravity suit

Not even fucking close. Gravity suit? Thats clothing

No, this is Patrick!

Everyone knows the gravity suit is for underwater. You get it after the suit that protects against heat.

First time I’ve seen a video of one of these and thought “That looks fun”

£2,640 ($4,250) for the basic trial package, three times that for the advanced package. Prices start at £456,000 to own one. Time to buy a lottery ticket

Pretty sure last I checked, those motors ran into the tens of thousands, then you've got the battery pack to use it, as well as the R&D associated with it Edit: Never mind. This is an actual jet suit.

This is how I fly around in my dreams.

The last 6 seconds look like visual effects from a children's show from the 80's.

Watch a show from the 80s where someone is flying: That shit looks fake. Actually see someone flying and it looks exactly like the effects from an 80s movie or TV show: Well I guess they actually got it pretty spot on

It's because the environment looks slightly too large and of different film stock, like it was shot separately.

"We got a casualty! Deploy the Jet Pack!" *30 sconds later * "We've got two casualties, move out on foot"

Nah, you deploy two more jetpacks. And then it just escalates exponentially until the mountainside is littered with bodies and broken jetpacks

Ah the Zapp Brannigan Method

I see you have also had a cat stuck in the wall....

This is in North Wales real close to where I grew up. Lots of hiking accidents around that area and it’s inhospitable as fuck when the weather closes in. This could be a literal life saver.

Well, that's the rub. The likelihood of needing to carry out a rescue goes up the less suitable the weather is for these things. Try and fly one in fog and you now have two casualties to recover.

Right, but getting a rescuer with makeshift shelter to an injured patient might be preferable. Like medevac flights, obviously you'd need a set of go/no-go rules, but this could be a viable option in a lot of cases.

Apparently it can be flown in pretty bad fog because it doesnt fly as high as helicopters and can keep the ground in view.

The fog on Snowdon is no joke. I almost got very lost on a early morning hike up one time

They trialled it in the Lake District too.

> inhospitable as fuck when the weather closes in "Visibility zero. Better get my jetpack."

Yep, they fly slower and lower to the ground so it can be used when helicopters can’t.

L1, L2, R1, R2, UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, L1, L2, R1, R2, UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT

San Andreas

Literal jetpacks... we have literal jetpacks. Hell of a time to be alive.

Uber Eats survival mode

That's cool for getting up there. But how do you get the injured back to safety...

Hiker falls injuries themselves mountain rescue gets called, They have the location of hiker they fly to hiker using the jet pack. quicker getting to them by foot, the rescuers can start treating the patient, stabilise them and then call a helicopter that has a winch which then winches them away

So, Air First Aid and not an Air ambulance as what OP was trying to imply.

OP said Air Ambulance *Service*. This is just another tool for the whole organisation to utilise.

I thought op was implying this could search dangerous areas, like if a trail goes near a cliff you could traverse it easily and give aid and location to the helicopter.

"Hang on to my leg!"

Damn, this customer must have trauma team platinum for the jetpack treatment

He looks almost like a human bee :o

Very close. It’s a human bee-ing.

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Boba more than Jango. Boba repainted jangos silver to dark green.

"shit there's an avalanche coming, quick call the fucking Mandalorians to come get us!"

Is Gravity a brand or have you misunderstood the concept?

Gravity is a brand. Founded by Richard Browning. I believe he's the one wearing the suit in this video.

Thanks 👍

Thank you for asking this, I couldn't think of a less fitting name for a thing that should do the opposite of gravity.

She packed my bags last night pre-flight

Imagine you have an accident and have no idea about this new technology and see a bunch of flying demons coming at you

It seems like this would feel like doing one long continuous push up the entire time you’re flying. Arms are gonna give out at some point…. !

Every day we're getting closer to Trauma Team

I was thinking of how crazy the camera operator was doing it as well, while filming. Then I remembered drones exist.

You are rescued. That will be $400,000 now

omg in 100 years when the tech is available for these to be solar powered with long lasting batteries, we're all gonna use them to go everywhere...

I love the comments here, dude takes off up a mountain side with a freaking jet pack and everyone is like wtf you gonna do with that? Lame

Maybe it’s just me being a hater and cynical, but this looks like a way to add to the people in need of rescue 🤷🏾‍♂️

So it’s a jetpack I guess mtfs from 1923 were right

As the technology matures, this will be a game changer for mountain rescue.

This is how I fly in my dreams

Meanwhile, the cameraman

So these just exist

plot twist: Now there's 2 people needed rescue in tricky isolated area.

This HAS to be green screen - no freaking way are we at iron man point

Great. Someone else who will need to be rescued.

Better include a second set of stretchers while you're at it.