In the early nineties, when I was just a young lad with a head full of dreams, they made it sound like jetpacks were just around the corner.
Now, this pile of garbage is as far as I can tell the most advanced consumer jetpack they've come up with so far. Prepare for the biggest disappointment of your life:
Since I'm fed up with getting assblasted by engineers and scientists who continue to fail to come up with a backpack sized, efficient, save jetpack, I'm looking for a different mode of transportation.
My town is really bike friendly, and I go everywhere by bike, but it's been done to death. I've been driving one for more than 20 years now and I think it's time to make a change. The only problem: those things are just so convenient, fast and cheap.
Can any of the 'skates' compete with the convenience of a bicycle? Does anyone here ride any of the skateboard-bastardisations that are out there, like a longboard or these twisty thingies?
Yet another disappointing fact. We all thought the year 2000 would be so futuristic...so amazing...but no solar powered jetpacks, no flying cars, no giant cities...its just more pollution and oil obsessed people. And IPHONES.
On October 12 2014 07:15 radscorpion9 wrote: Yet another disappointing fact. We all thought the year 2000 would be so futuristic...so amazing...but no solar powered jetpacks, no flying cars, no giant cities...its just more pollution and oil obsessed people. And IPHONES.
You have all of the world's information inside your pocket and can find out almost any known fact in under a minute, how is that not amazing?
On October 12 2014 07:15 radscorpion9 wrote: Yet another disappointing fact. We all thought the year 2000 would be so futuristic...so amazing...but no solar powered jetpacks, no flying cars, no giant cities...its just more pollution and oil obsessed people. And IPHONES.
You have all of the world's information inside your pocket and can find out almost any known fact in under a minute, how is that not amazing?
For real. What would happen if the Greeks could reference any known knowledge in a handheld device?
You can hold every single piece of great literature in the palm of your hand. You can hold every scientific experiment, every mathematical theory, every news or magazine article. Who the fuck cares if it takes 8 hours (or whatever) to fly to New York? I can know what's happening there RIGHT NOW without even getting up.
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