This is more like it! Via Tim Worstall, may I direct the natural philosophers among you to study some exciting new research from xkcd, wisest of the sages of the internet:
“Is it possible to build a jetpack using downward firing machine guns?”
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Take this to its logic conclusion and you come up with one of these:
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Finally! Something I can apply in daily life!
Russell Munroe is truly awesome!
@Laird:
[Snark]Randall Monroe is pretty cool too.[/Snark]
I’d really like an AK47…..
I like to watch shooting channels on youtube and see what I’m missing out on. Sometimes though it all gets a bit much for me.
Being reminded of the very long list of things I’m not allowed makes me feel so claustrophobic I can hardly breathe at times……
[Super pendantic Snark]Munroe[/super pendantic snark]
(with apologies to the Pendant himself, given that he is referenced at the top)
Funny, just today Glenn Reynolds just linked to some words the Great Man wrote in 2008:
Randall Munroe, Internet Wise Man.
I think this XKCD comic is more appropriate for Samizdata. 🙂
bgates, he wrote that in 2008. A lot of people were snookered by Obama then. I’m not aware that he wrote anything similar in 2012. But even if he had, it doesn’t take away from his great cartoons. I can separate the man’s canon (snicker) from his politics. Heck, I like Streisand’s singing, too.
Laird, he wrote it in January 2008, and that’s why he hasn’t written anything similar this year: He thought the Democratic primary was the only time his readers might disagree, because he thinks his fans are smart, and he assumes smart people are Democrats.
BUT if we use machineguns as jetpacks, what will we use real jetpacks for?
Nuke Gray,
Good grief man, have you never heard of the “Kzinti lesson”?
TV Tropes: Weaponized Exhaust
Looking at the second cartoon within the jetpack article, my son’s comment was, “That’s one brave traffic cop”.
If he was really serious, he would have carried on to the 84mm CarlG.
Cheers
@Pendant-General:
Of course, it’s an internet convention that any post correcting someone else’s spelling must itself have a spelling mistake.
🙂
Curse you, Les, for mentioning Project Orion before I did! But well played. And, just btw, looking at the nom de cool of the author of this article, I wonder whether there are applications for railguns for personal transportation!
Pardon, last comment referred to “Simon Jester”, the previous commenter. I’ll just crawl back under my rock in mortification. ‘Bye now.
Finally, a method of rocket-jumping which won’t melt my shoes.