how come they never really took off?
― fritz, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)
i kill me.
That's pretty good.
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)
You know what I can't get over?
Hurdles.
OOhhh, I thought this was going to be a cool picture thread. http://willj.net/blog_images/friday_link_o_rama/3/hovercraft.jpg
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)
hahahaha jokes
― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.hovercraft-for-sale.com/images/hov1.gif
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)
Saw a flymo at the Friendly Jesus thrift store the other day. Hovering lawnmower thing. Almost bought it. Good for threatening neighbors. Who killed the flymo?
― Bob Standard, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)
No-one! My mum just got one... http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/21NS2BF76GL._AA160_.jpg
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)
Really? New one? I thought it was just imaginary object of the distant past. Is it still good for threatening neighbors?
― Bob Standard, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)
Yep, brand new - it's very very light - so yes probably good for all kinds of things. Even cutting grass.
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 22:33 (eighteen years ago)
The commercial success of hovercraft suffered from rapid rises in fuel prices during the late 1960s and 1970s following conflict in the Middle East. Alternative over-water vehicles such as wave-piercing catamarans (marketed as the SeaCat in Britain) use less fuel and can perform most of the hovercraft's marine tasks.
― ledge, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 00:20 (eighteen years ago)
Haha ledge! funny stuff
But seriously folks, have you ever eaten Hovercraft food?! The only thing taking off was THE FOOD IN YOUR STOMACH OUT OF YOUR MOUTH INTO A TOILET
― brownie, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 00:24 (eighteen years ago)
Only 8 more years till hoverboards (!!!)
― billstevejim, Thursday, 30 August 2007 03:29 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.geocities.com/fang_club/hungarian.jpg Mine is full of eels
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 30 August 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)
my friends built a hovercraft in college out of an inflatable kiddy pool, an airplane engine, some fiberboard, and a lot of ducttape
― river wolf, Thursday, 30 August 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)
xpost: great sketch!
if i have one wish, it's that hoverboards will be the great technological advance of my lifetime.
― Just got offed, Thursday, 30 August 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)
bbc were reporting this this morning:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6970031.stm
"Capable of vertical take-off and landing, the craft hovers like a helicopter up to 10ft off the ground. Any higher and the driver would need a pilot's license."
"Look at the sky above us - how many aircraft do you see? It's a great space that is not being utilised. That is what we plan to use. Cars are finished as a means of getting around. It's only a matter of time."
for 'utilised' read 'spoiled'
the inventor thinks they will ease congestion. doesn't seem to see the obvious downfall - without roads and road markings there will be chaos.
'cars are finished'.
― koogs, Thursday, 30 August 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)
I can't wait until I can fly everywhere at 10ft above the ground. Nothing will get in my way.
That Moller guy has been saying this for at least the past 15 years.
― Bocken Social Scene, Thursday, 30 August 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)