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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Jet packs for sale! Life insurance sold separately]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</guid><description><![CDATA[70mph?  30seconds?  Now that sounds like a great idea!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[RijilV]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 22nd 2007 10:29PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Jet packs for sale! Life insurance sold separately]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</guid><description><![CDATA[I'm going to spend all 30 seconds going up.  Then I'll switch to my parachute.  Man, its going to be fun!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[uclatommy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 22nd 2007 10:45PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Jet packs for sale! Life insurance sold separately]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</guid><description><![CDATA[I saw the Go Fast guy at parade in Denver, he was VERY cautious and never got more than about 15' off the ground.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Spyvie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 22nd 2007 10:47PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Jet packs for sale! Life insurance sold separately]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</guid><description><![CDATA[That thing is awesome. It may only last 30 seconds, but it'll be the best 30 seconds of your life!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 22nd 2007 10:52PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Jet packs for sale! Life insurance sold separately]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</guid><description><![CDATA[Is that what you tell all the ladies? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[IndustrialJones]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 23rd 2007 4:52AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Jet packs for sale! Life insurance sold separately]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</guid><description><![CDATA[ahaha ^]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[jman315]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 28th 2007 3:40PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Jet packs for sale! Life insurance sold separately]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</guid><description><![CDATA[Completely ridiculous.<br><br>You can never max one of these out simply because if you try to accelerate to the pack's limit, you'd end up going too fast to slow down (slowing down takes fuel too) and cause yourself a lateral impact that would snap your legs or break your ankles.<br><br>Go to high and risk a situation where landing is difficult and dangerous.<br><br>Its not as easy as you think - just opening a parachute...a parachute takes TIME to open. HAve you ever heard of a Base Jumper jumping from less than 200 Feet?  That's about the height you could expect to reach in one of these.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Big]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 22nd 2007 11:04PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Jet packs for sale! Life insurance sold separately]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</guid><description><![CDATA["That thing is awesome. It may only last 30 seconds, but it'll be the best 30 seconds of your life!"<br><br>It'll also be the last 30 seconds of your life....]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David MacMillan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 22nd 2007 11:14PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Jet packs for sale! Life insurance sold separately]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</guid><description><![CDATA[Look up in the air!  It's a bird!  It's a plane!  It's Supe..... Naw,  it's just some doofus with a jet pack.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Constable Odo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 22nd 2007 11:24PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Jet packs for sale! Life insurance sold separately]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</guid><description><![CDATA[In honor of this post, I shall created an edited version of a section of the Elton John song "Rocket Man" to a more fitting version, "Jetpack Man":<br><br>"And I think it's gonna be a [30 seconds] time <br>Till [myself] brings me [back to the ground] again to find <br>I'm not the man [99% of people believing spending at least $155,000 on a Jetpack with little practical use is f@#king insane] think i am at home<br>Oh no no no I'm a [Jetpack] man<br>[Jetpack] man [expelling] out his [hydrogen peroxide] up here alone"<br><br>It just doesn't feel the same as the original.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TheGuy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 22nd 2007 11:30PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Jet packs for sale! Life insurance sold separately]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</guid><description><![CDATA[Hey look ma, I can fly !!! Wait, why is the ground accelerating towards me ?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[XGM]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 22nd 2007 11:44PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Jet packs for sale! Life insurance sold separately]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</guid><description><![CDATA[personal flight is the next big thing, but I'm afraid to say jetpacks aren't it.<br> <br>(and many laws and security devices will change should it become common)<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[tekdroid]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 23rd 2007 12:43AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Jet packs for sale! Life insurance sold separately]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</guid><description><![CDATA[Necessary training?  What do they think they are selling, a Segway?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[biomi]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 23rd 2007 1:03AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Jet packs for sale! Life insurance sold separately]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</guid><description><![CDATA[Why?<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 23rd 2007 1:13AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Jet packs for sale! 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Cyphre]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 23rd 2007 4:42AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Jet packs for sale! Life insurance sold separately]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</guid><description><![CDATA[Wait wait, Tecnologia Aeroespacial Mexicana?  Didn't they send a whale to the moon? <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Willzyx" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Willzyx</a>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 23rd 2007 9:12AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Jet packs for sale! 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Because it will use Jet fuel for propulsion while these use hydrogen peroxide.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sam Meyer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 24th 2007 7:21PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Jet packs for sale! Life insurance sold separately]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</guid><description><![CDATA[capitan she is getting ready to blow,30 seckonds that isent even time to fart!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[skagbag]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 27th 2007 9:17PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Jet packs for sale! 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For 250k I could buy the Ferrari 360 and something more pedestrian like a Porsche 911 and have enough change for hair plugs and liposuction!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pepper White]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 28th 2007 12:17AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Jet packs for sale! Life insurance sold separately]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</guid><description><![CDATA[Just remember, The Wright brothers didn't fly very far on their first flight...  now we can fly around the world.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gpsjr]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 28th 2007 12:28AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Jet packs for sale! 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And this is where you'd really want to buy american made.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 28th 2007 5:44AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Jet packs for sale! Life insurance sold separately]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/jet-packs-for-sale-life-insurance-sold-separately/</guid><description><![CDATA[you will have enough time to say capitan she is getting ready to blow 30 seckonds thats not enough time to fart!!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[skagbag]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 28th 2007 9:35AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>