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    For Sale: Military Assault Hovecraft, Weapons Included, Good Condition

    This Is What An Apollo 11 Engineer Ends Up With After 20 Years Of Working On a Travel Trailer

    Steamboat Willy Human-Powered Hovercraft Crosses the Thames

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    Image of Zerod Zunaro Zerod Zunaro
    10/23/09

    In reply to For Sale: Military Assault Hovecraft, Weapons Included, Good Condition
    I'll take one for huh... personal world domination business. #excelsiorhovercraft
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    Image of 11thRS 11thRS
    10/23/09

    In reply to For Sale: Military Assault Hovecraft, Weapons Included, Good Condition
    That is one badass MF'er... especially with two Darleks mounted on the foredeck, hopefully it has the 10k watt stereo unit upgrade with the "EXTERMINATE" sound byte preloaded. #excelsiorhovercraft
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    Jrsy Devil's Bright Idea® promoted this comment 11thRS was starred 11thRS was unstarred
    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    10/23/09

    @11thRS: Darleks?? Are they anything like Daleks?
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    Image of 11thRS 11thRS
    10/27/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Bright Idea®: Hey, I just went with the majority of spellings on the internet. ;-) #excelsiorhovercraft
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    10/23/09

    In reply to For Sale: Military Assault Hovecraft, Weapons Included, Good Condition
    "Oh, Zoidberg, at last you're becoming a crafty consumer! Hello? I'll take eight!" #excelsiorhovercraft
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    Image of m.dean m.dean
    10/23/09

    In reply to For Sale: Military Assault Hovecraft, Weapons Included, Good Condition
    Read the fine print: Action figures in pic 6 sold separately.

    No deal.
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    SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! promoted this comment Edited by m.dean at 10/23/09 12:29 PM m.dean was starred m.dean was unstarred
    Image of Bueller Bueller
    10/23/09

    In reply to For Sale: Military Assault Hovecraft, Weapons Included, Good Condition
    People, do NOT buy this vehicle. I bought one last month and it was a complete LEMON. One of the fans only worked when it wanted to, and when it did, the skirt flew off, requiring me to fly in the complete 14000 man skirt repair crew to jack it up and sew it back on. And don't even get me started on the 'wood' trim accents and 'leather' interior. Complete fakes. I had to resort to driving it up and down in front of the shipyard with a big cutout carboard lemon attached to the bow, flying a flag that said 'Eastern European shipyard sold me a lemon and won't take it back.' Well, finally they did. Luckily, otherwise I'd have had to resort to aiming and attempting to hose them with the malfunctioning vulcan cannon. #excelsiorhovercraft
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    Image of MrBangBam MrBangBam
    10/23/09

    In reply to For Sale: Military Assault Hovecraft, Weapons Included, Good Condition
    Small price to pay to conquer France. #excelsiorhovercraft
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    10/23/09

    @MrBangBam: Orrrr....I could go down to Wal-Mart and pick up a paintball gun. #excelsiorhovercraft
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    Image of USB_Humping_Dog USB_Humping_Dog
    10/23/09

    @MrBangBam: You just need a big knife. And cheese, to distract them first. #excelsiorhovercraft
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    MrBangBam promoted this comment USB_Humping_Dog was starred USB_Humping_Dog was unstarred
    Image of Zombie_Belvedere_II Zombie_Belvedere_II
    10/23/09

    @MrBangBam: Seriously? France? What next, any good digs on mimes, or lawyers? How about mother-in-laws? Have you people ever even been to France? You do know that we never would have won WWII without the French Resistance right?

    And besides, they're a lot better than those damn dirty subhuman Canadians. #excelsiorhovercraft
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    Image of MrBangBam MrBangBam
    10/24/09

    @Zombie_Belvedere_II: I actually wrote in Canada first but I realized there's nothing to conquer anyways. #excelsiorhovercraft
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    Image of bitslammer bitslammer
    10/23/09

    In reply to For Sale: Military Assault Hovecraft, Weapons Included, Good Condition
    Meh...no i-Pod dock!?!?! #excelsiorhovercraft
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    10/23/09

    In reply to For Sale: Military Assault Hovecraft, Weapons Included, Good Condition
    I need to do some background check. What's the VIN? #excelsiorhovercraft
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE
    10/23/09

    @ripfire: Yeah, I want to see the HoverFax report! #excelsiorhovercraft
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    Image of Nick Nick
    10/23/09

    In reply to For Sale: Military Assault Hovecraft, Weapons Included, Good Condition
    i only want this if it is jackie chan proof. if it ain't -- no sale. #excelsiorhovercraft
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE
    10/23/09

    In reply to For Sale: Military Assault Hovecraft, Weapons Included, Good Condition
    It's the U420. Sell it to Frucci, equip it with some Volcano's [gizmodo.com] , and add a ":" between the 4 and the 2, and we will have a party ship! #excelsiorhovercraft
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    Image of Nick Nick
    10/23/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_IsStrongInTheSn...: bahahahaha, i love it. #excelsiorhovercraft
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    Image of NannerPuss NannerPuss
    10/23/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_IsStrongInTheSn...: Frooch would try to sleep with it somehow. #excelsiorhovercraft
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    GitEmSteveDave_IsStrongInTheSnark promoted this comment NannerPuss was starred NannerPuss was unstarred
    Image of GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE
    10/23/09

    @Nick: I should warn them that I get sea sick. So if I do have a "Reversal of Fortune", that's why. #excelsiorhovercraft
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    10/23/09

    In reply to For Sale: Military Assault Hovecraft, Weapons Included, Good Condition
    Hrrrmmm...I'm interested, but I'm a little short this paycheck. Anybody wanna go in with me on this? I can pitch in up to $100. #excelsiorhovercraft
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    Image of whiteknight89 digs DBZ whiteknight89 digs DBZ
    10/23/09

    @OCEntertainment: $175 here, but I get it on Friday nights. #excelsiorhovercraft
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    Image of Peregrinvs Peregrinvs
    10/23/09

    @whiteknight89 still plays DiabloII: Don't lie. You have no money. You have woman. Woman has your money.

    As evidence I present your picture.

    Else it is doctored and you are sad and lonely. In which case, for a price, I can ease your pain... #excelsiorhovercraft
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    whiteknight89 still plays DiabloII promoted this comment MrBangBam approved this comment Peregrinvs was starred Peregrinvs was unstarred
    Image of Pew Pew BOOM Pew Pew BOOM
    10/23/09

    In reply to For Sale: Military Assault Hovecraft, Weapons Included, Good Condition
    How many cup holders does it have? #excelsiorhovercraft
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    Image of B-low B-low
    10/23/09

    @Pew Pew BOOM: Cup holders are extra. #excelsiorhovercraft
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    Pew Pew BOOM promoted this comment B-low was starred B-low was unstarred
    Image of Pew Pew BOOM Pew Pew BOOM
    10/23/09

    @B-low: No sale then. #excelsiorhovercraft
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    Image of B-low B-low
    10/23/09

    @Pew Pew BOOM: 15 soviet trained soldiers with every $50 dollar cup holder purchased. Soldiers are highly trained in cup holder installation tactics. #excelsiorhovercraft
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    Image of DoctorEcks DoctorEcks
    08/31/09

    In reply to This Is What An Apollo 11 Engineer Ends Up With After 20 Years Of Working On a Travel Trailer
    I'm pretty sure that's the Proteus from "Fantastic Voyage". Shrunk to the size of an RBC its not so fugly.
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    Image of DreamTheEndless: Death's little brother DreamTheEndless: Death's little brother
    08/31/09

    In reply to This Is What An Apollo 11 Engineer Ends Up With After 20 Years Of Working On a Travel Trailer
    "...this guy built his first solid-fuel jet engine in a high school shop class."

    I don't think "solid-fuel" and "jet engine" go together. A jet engine uses a fan to force air into the (liquid) fuel where they are burned together.

    A "solid-fuel" engine is one type of rocket engine that's basically a slow bomb with a solid oxidizer mixed with a solid combustible.

    Just playing with the words - you could almost have a solid-fuel jet engine if you had some sort of aerosolized combustible powder that did NOT have an oxidizer mixed with it and instead got its oxygen from air forced with a turbine... That would be an interesting engineering exercise to see if it was even possible, but not something that anyone would bother making for any other reason.

    That's all - thanks.
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    Navin R Johnson promoted this comment DreamTheEndless: Death's little brother was starred DreamTheEndless: Death's little brother was unstarred
    Image of Navin R Johnson Navin R Johnson
    08/31/09

    @DreamTheEndless: +1 for the feasibility study of a typo.
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    Image of DreamTheEndless: Death's little brother DreamTheEndless: Death's little brother
    08/31/09

    @Navin R Johnson:
    :)

    Thanks -
    For the record, the typo was not the fault of Gizmodo - it was in the original article. I couldn't help but think it an interesting concept though...

    (Anyone want to see what happens when you force a few hundred pounds of non-dairy creamer into a turbine and light it? I kind of do... Anyone friends with bored postgrad students at someplace like Purdue, Cal-Tech, MIT, etc?)
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    Image of DigitalPasture DigitalPasture
    08/31/09

    In reply to This Is What An Apollo 11 Engineer Ends Up With After 20 Years Of Working On a Travel Trailer
    Needs a turrent... And flames on the paintjob (to make it go faster of course).
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    Image of Indigen Indigen
    08/31/09

    @DigitalPasture: Needs a what?
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    gunluva listens to Top Gear, watches Fatboy Slim promoted this comment Indigen was starred Indigen was unstarred
    Image of gunluva is prepared to drop. gunluva is prepared to drop.
    08/31/09

    @Indigen:

    A torret gun to shoot Combines with.
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    Image of Gary_7vn Gary_7vn
    08/31/09

    @gunluva listens to Top Gear, watches Fatboy Slim: or a Tourette's gun, that would tell everybody to fuckoff, shit, fuck, shit, fuck, shit, motherfucker
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