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solypsist
06-08-2006, 03:30
"Elite special forces troops being dropped behind enemy lines on covert missions are to ditch their traditional parachutes in favour of strap-on stealth wings."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=389357&in_page_id=1770

Didn't Wyle E. Cyote (?) buy this same thing from Acme years ago?

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2006/06/skyray060606_228x253.jpg
GeneralHankerchief
06-08-2006, 03:46
Didn't Wyle E. Cyote (?) buy this same thing from Acme years ago?

It came in green.

http://home.comcast.net/~general_hankerchief/onlinestorage/coyote.bmp

(Apologies for the bad color, you get the idea)
GoreBag
06-08-2006, 07:21
Yesss. I can't wait for the inevitable step to bring giant robots into the world's militaries. We're getting there.
English assassin
06-08-2006, 09:33
I was really annoyed when I read about this thing.

Suddenly motorbikes are only the second coolest mode of transport on the planet. And, a personal gripe of mine, they STILL have internal combustion engines. Come ON people, is this the 21st century or not?

(OT, a german engineer built a rocket powered bike back in the 1930s. It, err, didn't catch on.)
doc_bean
06-08-2006, 19:44
haven't they been working on these kind of things since the 30s ? So it finally paid off, who'd have thought...




Yesss. I can't wait for the inevitable step to bring giant robots into the world's militaries. We're getting there.

Maybe they're already here...

https://img315.imageshack.us/img315/2047/robotdesert6rc.jpg
AntiochusIII
06-08-2006, 20:02
One day everyone will be fighting from within the big mechas of various sizes and colours. And a few of them would actually be gigantic humans.

Japan will start a third Sino-Japanese war and be victorious! 'Cause they have better robots!!ichi111!1
A.Saturnus
06-08-2006, 21:48
I wonder when the first Terminator suits will be released.
KafirChobee
06-09-2006, 00:03
Oops, thought you were talking about Batwoman coming out of the closet - saw in Newsweek where DC made her a lesbian.

As to the military and their toys, when and how will such a thing ever truely be useful? And, robots? We got them (not giant ones, but tactical ones), even got guns that shoot around corners (I understand the Germans had one in WWII, that didn't work to hot) with accuracy.
Goofball
06-09-2006, 00:21
I thought you meant Adam West was finally publicly proclaiming his homosexuality.
Crazed Rabbit
06-09-2006, 00:27
Suddenly motorbikes are only the second coolest mode of transport on the planet. And, a personal gripe of mine, they STILL have internal combustion engines. Come ON people, is this the 21st century or not?

I disagree. They remain the coolest. These guys may soar, but bikers don't get sucked into jet engines. And besides, you don't need a big ole plane to ride a motorbike.

Crazed Rabbit
littlelostboy
06-09-2006, 00:37
I thought you meant Adam West was finally publicly proclaiming his homosexuality.

:laugh4:
Beirut
06-09-2006, 11:05
I thought you meant Adam West was finally publicly proclaiming his homosexuality.

I don't know Goofy, I read something somewhere that said Mr. West enjoyed the heterosexual advantages of '60s stardom like a demon.
Ianofsmeg16
06-09-2006, 11:10
"Elite special forces troops being dropped behind enemy lines on covert missions are to ditch their traditional parachutes in favour of strap-on stealth wings."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=389357&in_page_id=1770

Didn't Wyle E. Cyote (?) buy this same thing from Acme years ago?

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2006/06/skyray060606_228x253.jpg
Is it Childish that i really REALLY want one of those? :laugh4: