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    Image of günter macbeetle, codename: chrystlubitshi günter macbeetle, codename: chrystlubitshi
    10/31/09

    In reply to Air Board Personal Hovercraft Offers Opportunities for Embarrassment
    seriously? a 5 liter engine? i can think of a lot more fun to have with 5L of displacement..... wow.. give me four wheels and five speeds please. #hovercrafts
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    Image of t4stywh34t t4stywh34t
    10/30/09

    In reply to Air Board Personal Hovercraft Offers Opportunities for Embarrassment
    Marty McFly was a better driver.
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    Image of doktavian doktavian
    10/30/09

    In reply to Air Board Personal Hovercraft Offers Opportunities for Embarrassment
    Doesn't a Segway do pretty much everything this thing does but better, and cooler and with a much smaller footprint, and at half the price, not to mention it being more practical.

    Inventors of this thing, you probably should have called Dean Kamen to see if he thought this sort of thing would turn out as useless as it looks like it has. Good effort, but back to the ol' drawing boards you brainiacs! #hovercrafts
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    Image of Platypus Man Platypus Man
    10/30/09

    @doktavian: As much as I love Segways, they don't go on water! Ha!

    Oh wait, it can't go on water? Why in the world would they make a hovercraft that can't go on water? That's at least half the point of a hovercraft! Come on! #hovercrafts
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    Image of Xagest Xagest
    10/30/09

    In reply to Air Board Personal Hovercraft Offers Opportunities for Embarrassment
    Okay, someone get that guy a pair of shorts that have been officially approved by the "Man Code" #hovercrafts
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    Image of subryu subryu
    10/30/09

    In reply to Air Board Personal Hovercraft Offers Opportunities for Embarrassment
    Mall cops everywhere just got excited. No food court will be safe. #hovercrafts
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    10/30/09

    In reply to Air Board Personal Hovercraft Offers Opportunities for Embarrassment
    Yo, it's $14,000, not $140,000.

    Wow, 90% off what I thought it was before. We'd be crazy not to get this! #hovercrafts
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    Image of Kyle VanHemert Kyle VanHemert
    10/30/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: Good catch. Thanks #hovercrafts
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    06/27/09

    In reply to Magnetic Levitating Turntable Concept Looks Impractical, Amazing
    This is almost as practical as my Cold-Fusion Toaster (patent pending).
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    Image of frigg frigg
    03/13/09

    In reply to Scientists Invent Floatiest Material On Earth
    Usually a picture's worth a thousand words. But those words are worth a thousand of those pictures, which look like "project of the week" photos from a high school science textbook.
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    03/12/09

    In reply to Scientists Invent Floatiest Material On Earth
    I call slip n slide in the deep end!
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    Image of Neil Pietrantonio Neil Pietrantonio
    03/12/09

    In reply to Scientists Invent Floatiest Material On Earth
    Can it be coated on cars to wick away damaging moisture, possibly carrying corroding salt and sand?
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/13/09

    @Neil Pietrantonio: Or you could just cover your entire car in a coat of RainX
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    Image of AXSLV2 AXSLV2
    03/12/09

    In reply to Scientists Invent Floatiest Material On Earth
    wait, I'm confused... but is it water floating over water?
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    03/13/09

    @AXSLV2: It's not water-tight, it is a copper MESH, that will hold up weight based on the water's surface tension.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/13/09

    @AXSLV2: Allow me to explain it in terms you'll understand. Imagine you were swimming in the ocean and then had some wicked bad gas. As you expel it the gas envelops and clings to your body like a cheap hooker at a hotel bar. It then acts as a 'barrier' between your body and the water so you're floating on a bubble above the surface of the water.
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    Image of Twisk Twisk
    03/12/09

    In reply to Scientists Invent Floatiest Material On Earth
    Wait, so it'll be floating robotic insect overlords now? Is that what I'm to understand here?
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    Image of GalenAlexis GalenAlexis
    03/12/09

    Segways on Water!@Twisk: No, you are to understand that there will be Segways on Water, now.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/13/09

    @GalenAlexis: Aquatic Segways!!??!!!


    This won't end well...

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    Image of Nathan Cline Nathan Cline
    03/12/09

    In reply to Scientists Invent Floatiest Material On Earth
    haha, put it on a hyper-lux yacht, it blasts across the sea at a ridiculous speed... hits an oil slick and sinks like a stone.
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    Image of PerspectiveX PerspectiveX
    03/13/09

    @Nathan Cline: Not on an actual boat. The "boat" referenced in the Giz summary is a copper mesh basket.


    An actual boat would likely still be able to rely on hull buoyancy should it encounter other liquid surface materials.


    Besides, an oil spill is only at the surface layer. It would sink a little bit until it hit the water underneath.

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    03/13/09

    @PerspectiveX: Thanks, Perspective for putting that into, perspective..
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    Image of Bob_Dole Bob_Dole
    03/12/09

    In reply to Scientists Invent Floatiest Material On Earth
    Watch a swimsuit get made coated with this. THEN THEY'LL START ARGUING WHETHER IT'S CHEATING OR NOT. That or people will have fun sliding across the water...


    Huh...


    A water slide with out the slide?

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    Image of Kayonesoft Kayonesoft
    03/13/09

    @Bob_Dole: I wonder if you dived with this theoretical suit on, if the water will displace around you...? Causing you to immediately and violently hit bottom.
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    Image of stre stre
    03/13/09

    @Kayonesoft: negative, the water doesn't go running away from you with this, it just can't make contact with the coating. it's like a magnet over another magnet with the same poles facing. the bottom magnet doesn't jump out of the way, it just holds the top magnet up.


    you'd still have the bouyant force. if the water were to jump out of the way and let you fall to the bottom, the boat in the picture wouldn't be floating. it'd be sitting at the bottom with a microscopic coating of air.

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    03/13/09

    @stre: thank you Buzzkillington...
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    Image of Valicious Valicious
    03/12/09

    In reply to Scientists Invent Floatiest Material On Earth
    Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
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    03/12/09

    @Valicious:
    is he speaking greece?
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    03/12/09

    @uli: Cthulhuese.
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