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edited July 2019 in A Moving Train

https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2019/07/15/bastille-day-flying-soldier-hoverboard-vpx.cnn

Not sure if this is new technology, or been done before, but pretty amazing.

*Insert funny Back to the Future joke here.

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  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,479
    Impressed by how fluid and small it is.
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 16,836
    I gotta ask - those giving trump shit about the July 4th (rightfully so IMO)...what do you think about Bastille day.

    For fucks sake they had a guy flying around with a weapon and no one bats an eye and talks about the flyboard only.  Something is seriously wrong with people.
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  • Hi!
    Hi! Posts: 3,095
    cincybearcat said:
    I gotta ask - those giving trump shit about the July 4th (rightfully so IMO)...what do you think about Bastille day.

    For fucks sake they had a guy flying around with a weapon and no one bats an eye and talks about the flyboard only.  Something is seriously wrong with people.
    Good point, I was just impressed with the technology.

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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,465
    cincybearcat said:
    I gotta ask - those giving trump shit about the July 4th (rightfully so IMO)...what do you think about Bastille day.

    For fucks sake they had a guy flying around with a weapon and no one bats an eye and talks about the flyboard only.  Something is seriously wrong with people.
    Well it seems to me it was a planned thing, doesnt it? I mean higher ups?
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  • cincybearcat
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    mickeyrat said:
    cincybearcat said:
    I gotta ask - those giving trump shit about the July 4th (rightfully so IMO)...what do you think about Bastille day.

    For fucks sake they had a guy flying around with a weapon and no one bats an eye and talks about the flyboard only.  Something is seriously wrong with people.
    Well it seems to me it was a planned thing, doesnt it? I mean higher ups?
    Yes a planned event...a planned even to have  a soldier flying around to show amazing technology and military superiority.  Just like Trump wanted from 4th of July. Just like the Chinese and NK do.  Crazy.  Not sure why they had to have that guy with a weapon.  Would have been amazing without it.  
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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,399
    cincybearcat said:
    I gotta ask - those giving trump shit about the July 4th (rightfully so IMO)...what do you think about Bastille day.

    For fucks sake they had a guy flying around with a weapon and no one bats an eye and talks about the flyboard only.  Something is seriously wrong with people.
    He was a soldier, they have weapons.

    That is really cool but all I can think about is over correcting on that thing and you're toast.

    What if it decides to stop working when you are mid flight?


  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 16,836
    tempo_n_groove said:
    cincybearcat said:
    I gotta ask - those giving trump shit about the July 4th (rightfully so IMO)...what do you think about Bastille day.

    For fucks sake they had a guy flying around with a weapon and no one bats an eye and talks about the flyboard only.  Something is seriously wrong with people.
    He was a soldier, they have weapons.

    That is really cool but all I can think about is over correcting on that thing and you're toast.

    What if it decides to stop working when you are mid flight?


    Me thinks you are missing my point. ;)

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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,399
    cincybearcat said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    cincybearcat said:
    I gotta ask - those giving trump shit about the July 4th (rightfully so IMO)...what do you think about Bastille day.

    For fucks sake they had a guy flying around with a weapon and no one bats an eye and talks about the flyboard only.  Something is seriously wrong with people.
    He was a soldier, they have weapons.

    That is really cool but all I can think about is over correcting on that thing and you're toast.

    What if it decides to stop working when you are mid flight?


    Me thinks you are missing my point. ;)

    Ahhhh, just re read what you wrote, got it!
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,465
    cincybearcat said:
    mickeyrat said:
    cincybearcat said:
    I gotta ask - those giving trump shit about the July 4th (rightfully so IMO)...what do you think about Bastille day.

    For fucks sake they had a guy flying around with a weapon and no one bats an eye and talks about the flyboard only.  Something is seriously wrong with people.
    Well it seems to me it was a planned thing, doesnt it? I mean higher ups?
    Yes a planned event...a planned even to have  a soldier flying around to show amazing technology and military superiority.  Just like Trump wanted from 4th of July. Just like the Chinese and NK do.  Crazy.  Not sure why they had to have that guy with a weapon.  Would have been amazing without it.  
    well a military showing is traditional for them, at least since AFTER WW2 with De Gaulle , invaded twice in less than 30 years. It does make sense in a cold war context.
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  • F Me In The Brain
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    tempo_n_groove said:
    cincybearcat said:
    I gotta ask - those giving trump shit about the July 4th (rightfully so IMO)...what do you think about Bastille day.

    For fucks sake they had a guy flying around with a weapon and no one bats an eye and talks about the flyboard only.  Something is seriously wrong with people.
    He was a soldier, they have weapons.

    That is really cool but all I can think about is over correcting on that thing and you're toast.

    What if it decides to stop working when you are mid flight?


    I thought of that as well...
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  • Spiritual_Chaos
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    cincybearcat said:
    I gotta ask - those giving trump shit about the July 4th (rightfully so IMO)...what do you think about Bastille day.

    For fucks sake they had a guy flying around with a weapon and no one bats an eye and talks about the flyboard only.  Something is seriously wrong with people.
    I don't think it's in good taste to do military parades anywhere. 

    But I do think there is a difference in keeping on with a tradition and suddenly screaming "I WANT TANKS!" because one want's to be an admired dictator.
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • cincybearcat
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    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    cincybearcat said:
    I gotta ask - those giving trump shit about the July 4th (rightfully so IMO)...what do you think about Bastille day.

    For fucks sake they had a guy flying around with a weapon and no one bats an eye and talks about the flyboard only.  Something is seriously wrong with people.
    I don't think it's in good taste to do military parades anywhere. 

    But I do think there is a difference in keeping on with a tradition and suddenly screaming "I WANT TANKS!" because one want's to be an admired dictator.
    No argument on how stupid that is.  But I also think Bastille Day is stupid...well I mean the flying gun guy to show strength.


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  • Spiritual_Chaos
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    cincybearcat said:
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    cincybearcat said:
    I gotta ask - those giving trump shit about the July 4th (rightfully so IMO)...what do you think about Bastille day.

    For fucks sake they had a guy flying around with a weapon and no one bats an eye and talks about the flyboard only.  Something is seriously wrong with people.
    I don't think it's in good taste to do military parades anywhere. 

    But I do think there is a difference in keeping on with a tradition and suddenly screaming "I WANT TANKS!" because one want's to be an admired dictator.
    No argument on how stupid that is.  But I also think Bastille Day is stupid...well I mean the flying gun guy to show strength.


    Maybe you didn't read Spider-Man growing up - but the flying guy is cool. Wanted him to throw around some pumpkins
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  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,645
    So because other nations hold these kinds of displays we should too ? 
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  • brianlux
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    I was kind of hoping he would start tossing hand grenades at the crowd.  Make a real show of it!
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  • OnWis97
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    josevolution said:
    So because other nations hold these kinds of displays we should too ? 
    I'm with you.  In general I'm not a fan but I also don't really view this as signifying a move toward authoritarianism in France (someone let me know if I'm wrong; I'm not pretending to know a ton about France and its history).  My gut reaction is that this is not as ominous as parading tanks down the street in DC is.  For a third of the population, that event was celebrating Trump; not America.  And that's dangerous.  I don't view that as the same thing in France.

    Another thing is that to a large degree, I try to worry about how clean my house is, not others.  It's kinda unrealistic to expect Americans to be as charged up about this going on in France as we are with what's going on here.  Certainly not when it doesn't appear likely to signify anything terrible to be on the horizon.
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  • Hi!
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    We need these at our next 4th of July Parade. We can call them, Freedom Flyers. Dude could fly over the RNC tent and throw out handfuls of subpoenas.

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  • cincybearcat
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    josevolution said:
    So because other nations hold these kinds of displays we should too ? 
    Who said that?  
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  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 16,836
    Hi! said:
    We need these at our next 4th of July Parade. We can call them, Freedom Flyers. Dude could fly over the RNC tent and throw out handfuls of subpoenas.
    Need these guys/gals flying above schools and movie theaters. ;)
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  • Hi!
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    cincybearcat said:
    Hi! said:
    We need these at our next 4th of July Parade. We can call them, Freedom Flyers. Dude could fly over the RNC tent and throw out handfuls of subpoenas.
    Need these guys/gals flying above schools and movie theaters. ;)
    +1

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