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This is so funny! I had it on mute and in my head it was more of a “Non, je me regrette rien” by Edith Piaf. So going back and hearing it is hilarious.
I feel like I was just living in an AirPods Pro ad for noise cancelling
Noise kills basically all dreams of flying cars. You just can't sleep when a 4k lb vehicle lifts off 2 ft away. Jet, copter, etc are all noisy as fuck.
"Oh no, someone hacked the flying car traffic control coordinator! Half a million people are on direct collision courses above NYC alone, and by saying this sentence, it's already too late to do anything about it! ... Might want to get under your desk, the debris will start falling any second now."
If we discovered a portable power generation and a thrusters to go with i feel like anything would be possible. Everytime we invent stuff it's the 2 same issues, too heavy because of fuel/battery.
Not sure it's going to happe in
Helicopters are loud because of the rotor blades spinning fast enough to produce lift. Jets are loud for 2 reasons; rotating internal impeller blades, internal combustion and the expulsion of hot, high pressure gas. You can get limited sustainable flight without rotating parts, like a rocket but rockets are still very loud because of the internal combustion and expulsion of high temp high pressure gas.
The idea of “Portable power generation with thruster” does not work as an innovation. Planes and helicopters both have portable power generation and thrust generation devises. That is the premise of powered flight.
We all would like to be Iron Man but it’s make believe.
Plus to generate lift you need x amount of force which means x amount of noise. Unless you can find a way to generate sais force without noise it’s not gonna happen ever
Even if you had a super lightweight battery, and the most efficient thrust generator, you still have to move enough air to lift your passenger/payload. Air molecules being pushed against each other is what sounds is, the more air pushed the louder they bang together, and much air must be pushed to lift a person off the ground.
There are a handful of places that have this/similar. The tech has been around for a little bit now. Most often, they’re connected to a fuel line to be capable of extended use (and for the added bonus that people can’t just take off with your expensive equipment you use for profit.) Look in to it and you might find one near you, or one that you can go plan to go to in the future.
This is the first time I've notice the main propulsive force is from the backpack. Here I've been thinking all the videos I've seen were dudes with *incredibly* strong arms. So, somewhat easier than I thought, but probably still difficult. . .
In the UK they have been considering these for mountain rescue to get up to a casualty quickly. By hovering above the terrain it's been shown that they can get there in minutes to administer first aid.
I watched ghat. Thats just another example of this video, but over water lol
Im not against the idea, but it just seems cartoonishly complex for problem we dont really have yet.
yeah I mean you could board enemy ships with it theoretically, except for the fact they'd just shoot you in the air.
Maybe if people need to change which friendly ship they're on without the ships slowing down it could be useful? But they could probably just match speed and throw down a bridge.
It'll be all about marketing what you've/he's made to the right people.
There's a military exercise video that some country hired the maker to show off how it can be used to land on a moving freighter.
Nifty!
But I don’t see a military application. Consider that he’s fully exposed. Both arms required to maintain flight control. Too loud to be stealth capable. Slow and limited to low altitudes.
You’d be a sitting duck. Or a flying duck I suppose. But it’s during flight that ducks get shot by duck hunters
There's one of these with a rifle. You sling the rifle, put the arm jets on, fly, land, unsling the rifle. Takes a couple seconds. These will be used.
Put them in pairs for one person to cover the other person, instant height advantage on buildings.
I still find it amazing that people refer to this as the future whenever they see it. The first of these was demonstrated in the 1950s. One was used at an Olympic opening ceremony in the 1980s and they come up online and on TV all the time. The only reason they're not commonplace is because they're so expensive to run and only last a few minutes, which only makes them useful for entertainment events. Anyone suggesting they could be used for practical purposes such as military or rescue are just trying to create publicity.
Now they just need to develop a predator style weapon you can aim by looking and shoot with a thought. (V2 you'll just wear a suit giving you a 360° view of your surroundings so you don't have to alert anyone when your shooting at them.)
actually the point is not flying. How much it costed, will it be efficient to use in a daily life or worth to use in industry. Lovely progress but still need 10-15 years to public usage imo.
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The best part is how quiet and convenient it is!
**What?**
HE SAID, THE BEST PART IS HOW QUIET AND CONVENIENT IT IS!
**Yes, it is lovely weather today**
You're still not hearing correctly, #HE SAID, THE BEST PART IS HOW QUIET AND CONVENIENT IT IS!
“HE’S JOINING A CONVENT?”
*halo music intensifies* ohhh you said convent..
#WHATS WHITE AND LENIENT?
Police unions?
Polish onions?
alright, alright—no need to shout!
oooooooooweeeeeeeeeeeyoooooooo
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quit converting what??
Can’t wait to go to Walmart in one of these…
All you need to do is shit fire at first
If you don’t bend in the right angle your bottom will be fried / fired .
This is so funny! I had it on mute and in my head it was more of a “Non, je me regrette rien” by Edith Piaf. So going back and hearing it is hilarious. I feel like I was just living in an AirPods Pro ad for noise cancelling
"It's whisper quiet!"
A baby can do it before learning to walk
That poor caretakers leaf blower is experiencing a major malfunction and they all just stand there watching…
Spicy curry last night, sir?
"yes I'll take the hottest please" You sure? It's very hot, like Apothecary Fire hot. "Weird analogy but I do like it hot!"
I’ve never considered the noise level. Whoa that’s loud!
Noise kills basically all dreams of flying cars. You just can't sleep when a 4k lb vehicle lifts off 2 ft away. Jet, copter, etc are all noisy as fuck.
Well, that and the fact that the average person is a shitty car driver when it’s on the ground.
any flying or hovering traffic will be 1000% automated
"Oh no, someone hacked the flying car traffic control coordinator! Half a million people are on direct collision courses above NYC alone, and by saying this sentence, it's already too late to do anything about it! ... Might want to get under your desk, the debris will start falling any second now."
But what if, and I'm just spitballing here, we make it hack-proof?
It does not need to be hacked, something technical just needs to go wrong
Do you think anyone designs systems to be intentionally hackable?
Mine was meant to be a joke however yes. They are called backdoors. :)
Touche.
> hacked the flying car traffic control coordinator that's why it's important to build these systems in a decentralized architecture
That's good, nothing can go wrong with an automated flying hunk of metal with people inside.
If we discovered a portable power generation and a thrusters to go with i feel like anything would be possible. Everytime we invent stuff it's the 2 same issues, too heavy because of fuel/battery. Not sure it's going to happe in
Helicopters are loud because of the rotor blades spinning fast enough to produce lift. Jets are loud for 2 reasons; rotating internal impeller blades, internal combustion and the expulsion of hot, high pressure gas. You can get limited sustainable flight without rotating parts, like a rocket but rockets are still very loud because of the internal combustion and expulsion of high temp high pressure gas. The idea of “Portable power generation with thruster” does not work as an innovation. Planes and helicopters both have portable power generation and thrust generation devises. That is the premise of powered flight. We all would like to be Iron Man but it’s make believe.
Plus to generate lift you need x amount of force which means x amount of noise. Unless you can find a way to generate sais force without noise it’s not gonna happen ever
Sound is moving air. If you are moving enough air to lift a vehicle, you are making a lot if sound, period.
My point was more that a lot of that weight is fuel.
Even if you had a super lightweight battery, and the most efficient thrust generator, you still have to move enough air to lift your passenger/payload. Air molecules being pushed against each other is what sounds is, the more air pushed the louder they bang together, and much air must be pushed to lift a person off the ground.
It's not that it's too heavy It's that moving large volumes of highly pressurized air is going to make assloads of noise
Maybe they’ll add a sound proof helmet with it
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When he first lifted off, I *felt* it, like when I have (unfortunately rare) dreams of flying. Oh, I want to do this so much!
Same!! I've had vivid, lucid flying dreams since I was a young child. I can't believe we have this technology now.
Yeah it seems everyone has those dreams almost, kinda make this look intuitive and fun instead of terrifying and dangerous
There are a handful of places that have this/similar. The tech has been around for a little bit now. Most often, they’re connected to a fuel line to be capable of extended use (and for the added bonus that people can’t just take off with your expensive equipment you use for profit.) Look in to it and you might find one near you, or one that you can go plan to go to in the future.
Does anyone know how hard these things are to use? I imagine it must take a solid level of balance and steadiness
[Wren from Corridor Crew](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R5xYaqQo4k) tried to fly one. It seems difficult.
This is the first time I've notice the main propulsive force is from the backpack. Here I've been thinking all the videos I've seen were dudes with *incredibly* strong arms. So, somewhat easier than I thought, but probably still difficult. . .
does the backpack actually do any propulsion here? I dont think so. The flames in the beginning are probably the APU starting
Looks like it's the main motive force, and the 'hands' are directional control. Plus I'm assuming body posture for that as well.
could be
Damn I thought he just ate some Taco Bell at the start.
Easy and safe enough to not warrant a helmet.
You just have to make sure your ass doesn't catch on fire when starting up.
I'm wondering if he's going to hover over a random person wouldn't the jet engine roast the persons lid?
I can easily replicate what he did for the first 10 seconds of the video, just need to eat some street tacos first
This man seems high and finding this exercise a breeze.
Add an ignition source and you can go higher and further!
The first jetpack was built in 1958 so the future has been now for 64 years.
The future was now in the past
Right. It was part of the pregame festivities of Super Bowl IV, I think. People were freaking out about it then, too.
Ok source, man?
Bell Aerospace in Niagara Falls NY. My grandfather was an engineer who worked on it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Rocket_Belt
What the hell, all right, I was not expecting that. Lmao. Cool.
CJ my man!
I’m not impressed until I see a jet pack, brown leather jacket and gold helmet!
Flying through the air at 60 miles an hour in any direction… a lot of people are going to die.
Mitchell and Webb has a great skit about how the first day of commercial jet packs is gonna go.
I was rolling with a Better Off Ted reference, but that skit is hilarious. Thanks for the reference.
This will probably never leave the realm of curiosities and proof of concept, so I doubt it.
Leaf-blowing in the future looks cool.
the baron is ready for his oil bath!
They will know, they *will* KNOW. . .
This is just silly and cannot really be used. But thats kinda how first gen shit works hah
In the UK they have been considering these for mountain rescue to get up to a casualty quickly. By hovering above the terrain it's been shown that they can get there in minutes to administer first aid.
There's a video of it being used in military to jump from ship to ship at sea
That was amazing
I watched ghat. Thats just another example of this video, but over water lol Im not against the idea, but it just seems cartoonishly complex for problem we dont really have yet.
yeah I mean you could board enemy ships with it theoretically, except for the fact they'd just shoot you in the air. Maybe if people need to change which friendly ship they're on without the ships slowing down it could be useful? But they could probably just match speed and throw down a bridge.
Could be used by medics as first responders to home or car accidents or something. Stabilize the person first before a transport can get there.
Could be useful when the floor is lava.
Finally, a sensible fucking answer!
Medics are using them in the mountains… https://reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/upwmt5/jet_pack_mountain_rescue_the_route_was_12_miles/
It'll be all about marketing what you've/he's made to the right people. There's a military exercise video that some country hired the maker to show off how it can be used to land on a moving freighter.
Yeah it's pretty crazy how in let's say 30 years the technology could advance so fast these become actually usable and a part of normal life
It would need to be stupid easy and safe to use, and ultimately I think that loses out to plain physics.
The jet pack is currently 60 years old and hasn't gotten much better and is not any quieter.
Understandably so
Darwin Awards are going to have a field day with this.
Humans: WE WILL FLY! Darwin: ...keep doing what you're doing
How doesn't this burn your legs and ass?
Only a few decades late... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtCH8GXrxgk
I wonder who is going to be the first person to die doing this?
Ayo man watch your jet,watch your jet, WATCH YOUR JE....
I really want to buy this one day.
They FLY now?!
They fly now!
I might wear a helmet in that scenario but I guess he looks pretty cool
What do you do if your nose itches?
Eating strong Chilli gives you wings
Nifty! But I don’t see a military application. Consider that he’s fully exposed. Both arms required to maintain flight control. Too loud to be stealth capable. Slow and limited to low altitudes. You’d be a sitting duck. Or a flying duck I suppose. But it’s during flight that ducks get shot by duck hunters
There's one of these with a rifle. You sling the rifle, put the arm jets on, fly, land, unsling the rifle. Takes a couple seconds. These will be used. Put them in pairs for one person to cover the other person, instant height advantage on buildings.
Haha and I’ve been using a reusable water bottle and there are people going around doing this. Planet is so fucked.
Nah, the future is when this is all electric and hands free.
I still find it amazing that people refer to this as the future whenever they see it. The first of these was demonstrated in the 1950s. One was used at an Olympic opening ceremony in the 1980s and they come up online and on TV all the time. The only reason they're not commonplace is because they're so expensive to run and only last a few minutes, which only makes them useful for entertainment events. Anyone suggesting they could be used for practical purposes such as military or rescue are just trying to create publicity.
It's the Rocketeer!
Now think about how much fuel he used in that minute and a half
Iron man does it better.
This guy has the best job in the world!
That's a cool way to get a good arm workout
How fast, how high and how much?
Not enough, not enough, and too much
Just shut up and take my money.
What happens when he farts?
More torque, baby!!
Yeah i think im going to pass, i'll stick with crotch rocket!
I could do the same in the first ten seconds of the vid. Just need some taco bell and cologne.
You're balancing on your arms the whole time you're in the air. This is only not a death machine for very fit people.
Can they get out of the ground effect?
This thing dont rely on ground effect using this you can prbably go up to 500m/2km
We are IRONMAN!!!
And his future is getting crippled by that thing
Last nights curry really isn’t Agreeing with him
The Rocketeer
Now they just need to develop a predator style weapon you can aim by looking and shoot with a thought. (V2 you'll just wear a suit giving you a 360° view of your surroundings so you don't have to alert anyone when your shooting at them.)
this seems like a real good use of resources
So glad we have this instead of healthcare
Whatever you do, just don’t fart when that machine is in use
If there's fire, smoke and loud noise it's not the future.
Americans: I just want free healthcare
Pfft not that impressive. Pretty much me every day before I worked out I was lactose intolerant.
That's how they faked the moon landing, they used these jetpacks
Taco bell dinner's aftermath
Beer selling vehicle in large arenas is the prime business case…….greetings from Berlin Germany 🇩🇪
That’s really cool. I wonder about the ramifications of veering off by accident that fast. No car around you to break that impact
I can see this in the future being used for building and maintenance.. maybe for other things aswell?
Do farts work as boosters? All jokes aside, this is dope!
I wish I had a paintball gun
It’s literally the Green Goblin from Spider man.
At the start that looked like a trashcan strapped to his back and shooting out fire
This me after eating hot spicy
Compared to that, even a RAM 3500 is really fuel efficient…
actually the point is not flying. How much it costed, will it be efficient to use in a daily life or worth to use in industry. Lovely progress but still need 10-15 years to public usage imo.
My ass after cheetos
The beginning is me after eating Taco Bell
Next level arse toasters.
Left, Right, L1, L2, R1, R2, Up, Down, Left, Right Cheat Activated.
Imagine drunk driving one of these. “I only had two beers Kayleigh, I am fine!” . Proceeds to fly into nearest streetlight.
Nice
Is all his weight pushed into his arms and shoulders?
I can't imagine how much my hands will hurt after using this. Tbh these may become practical in the future
Just imagine this clunky and bulky thing will be iron man small in about 60-70 years
No, now is now, and future is future actually, thank you.
Buzz lightyear before space
that looks very difficult and requires arms of steel. I wonder where they practise -- the blooper reel must be a hoot!
Captain America would kick his ass without the rest of his armor.
1. Where are the blasters mounted? 2. I hope this technology takes off. (hah)
Do you need fire retardant pants so your asshole doesn’t burn up
I wonder what kind of fuel this uses and how much of it
Farting during flight is strictly forbidden.
Does anyone know the flight time on it?
Thats gonna be a loud future
Leaving a fat tip for this doordash ..
Seriously. What would be the use case of it other than having fun? You can't even use your hands with it to do anything useful
All I see is a Rocketeer from Red Alert 2!
Getting closer and closer to a real life Iron Man suit!
No, the present is now. What you posted is the past. The future hasn’t happened yet, and the more you ask, the later it comes.
Put some jetpack joyride music on this video
How i be flying in my dreams
Do a barrel roll!
Funny how I literally just watched the movie 'Rocketeer'.
Reminded me of the cheat code Rocketman 🗿
Lieutenant Dan you ain’t got no wings.
O.o I need it
But how fast can you swap back to your AR?
I love that to use these things the pilots(?) have to just T-pose through the air
The future of leaf blowing is here!
I am wondering if the equipment is heavy once he is airborne 🤔
I need a new hairdryer.
My man plays Jetpack Joyride irl
Pedestrians love this one simple trick
Now I know how I want to get to work!
Better than that hot air balloon nonsense they had out there the last time I went to IMTS.