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  • Mr__Bill
    Veteran Member
    • May 2007
    • 2096
    • Tacoma, WA
    • BT3000
    #1

    Solving the snow and commute problem

    No reason to stay home now....


    read all about it at Popular Science.
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    • BobSch
      Veteran Member
      • Aug 2004
      • 4385
      • Minneapolis, MN, USA.
      • BT3100
      #2
      Somehow showing up at work looking like Captain America would probably get me talked about, (Captain Chaos, maybe... ) Cool way to go flying, though.
      Bob

      Bad decisions make good stories.

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        • atgcpaul
          Veteran Member
          • Aug 2003
          • 4055
          • Maryland
          • Grizzly 1023SLX
          #3
          This would be awesome, but the first jet-pack commuter who wipes out while
          talking on a cell phone will ruin it for the rest of us.

          Can you imagine if flying cars "took off" like all those people back in the day predicted? What a nightmare!

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            • germdoc
              Veteran Member
              • Nov 2003
              • 3567
              • Omaha, NE
              • BT3000--the gray ghost
              #4
              I think I read about this in Pop. Sci. in 1949 if I remember...

              I came across a stack of old Pop Sci and Pop Mech mags in an antique store last weekend. Fascinating to see what was "cutting edge" back then.
              Jeff


              “Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing”--Voltaire

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                • Ed62
                  The Full Monte
                  • Oct 2006
                  • 6021
                  • NW Indiana
                  • BT3K
                  #5
                  A better remedy would be to just do like I did. Retire!

                  Ed
                  Do you know about kickback? Ray has a good writeup here... https://www.sawdustzone.org/articles...mare-explained

                  For a kickback demonstration video http://www.metacafe.com/watch/910584...demonstration/

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                    • crokett
                      The Full Monte
                      • Jan 2003
                      • 10627
                      • Mebane, NC, USA.
                      • Ryobi BT3000
                      #6
                      Why would you want to solve the snow and commute problem? Then you'd actually have to go to work.
                      David

                      The chief cause of failure in this life is giving up what you want most for what you want at the moment.

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                        • Mr__Bill
                          Veteran Member
                          • May 2007
                          • 2096
                          • Tacoma, WA
                          • BT3000
                          #7
                          Well David I'll tell ya. Grew up in Northern Minnesota and never got a day off from school because of snow. Collage in Southern Minnesota and again, not a day off for snow. Worked in Minneapolis and never got a day off from work for snow. Spent 25+ years in Connecticut and except when working for myself I again never got a day off work for snow. Now that I live where snow is a rarity I feel it's my duty to make sure that no one gets a day off for snow


                          The rain is do back tomorrow, it's cloudy and cooling off and already I'm feeling like my usual illiterate curmudgeon self. At least I got all the long boards ripped before I had to keep the garage door closed.

                          Bill, On the Sunny Oregon Coast, where we hope to see the sun again about April.

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                            • LinuxRandal
                              Veteran Member
                              • Feb 2005
                              • 4890
                              • Independence, MO, USA.
                              • bt3100
                              #8
                              Originally posted by BobSch
                              Somehow showing up at work looking like Captain America would probably get me talked about, (Captain Chaos, maybe... ) Cool way to go flying, though.

                              Captain Chaos? Funny you should mention him, since he arrived in the back of an ambulance.
                              She couldn't tell the difference between the escape pod, and the bathroom. We had to go back for her.........................Twice.

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                                • BobSch
                                  Veteran Member
                                  • Aug 2004
                                  • 4385
                                  • Minneapolis, MN, USA.
                                  • BT3100
                                  #9
                                  Originally posted by LinuxRandal
                                  Captain Chaos? Funny you should mention him, since he arrived in the back of an ambulance.
                                  A hah! Somebody else who's a movie fan.
                                  Bob

                                  Bad decisions make good stories.

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