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    Air Board Personal Hovercraft Offers Opportunities for Embarrassment

    Dream Job: Scientists Search for Arctic Asteroids on Hovercraft

    Flying Boat; You Will Get Wet
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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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    Kyle VanHemert promoted this comment Edited by t4stywh34t at 10/30/09 10:25 PM t4stywh34t was starred t4stywh34t was unstarred
    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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    Kyle VanHemert promoted this comment subryu was starred subryu was unstarred
    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 Michai Michai
    10/13/09

    In reply to Dream Job: Scientists Search for Arctic Asteroids on Hovercraft
    :Salutes: To the greatest article heading ever. Every word in that sentence ignites my inner geekdom.
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    Image of defrost defrost
    10/13/09

    In reply to Dream Job: Scientists Search for Arctic Asteroids on Hovercraft
    "This means said hovercraft could cruise over 4-inch ice without cracking it"

    This is false. Hovercrafts are used as ice BREAKERS in some parts of the world, in particularly in river systems when the flow of the river moves the ice away. The air pressure under them forces air in between the ice and water and then the self weight of the ice causes it to crack. The Canadian Coast Guard uses Hovercrafts on the St. Lawrence River.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    10/13/09

    @defrost: From what I have read, they are only used to remove ice when it blocks a river due to a bottleneck.
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    Image of Barry99705 Barry99705
    10/13/09

    In reply to Dream Job: Scientists Search for Arctic Asteroids on Hovercraft
    Good luck finding four inches of ice in the arctic.
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    Image of Navin R Johnson Navin R Johnson
    10/13/09

    @Barry99705: Even if you did find AND crack thin ice, can't a hovercraft ride on water too anyway?
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    Image of Slyd3z Slyd3z
    10/13/09

    In reply to Dream Job: Scientists Search for Arctic Asteroids on Hovercraft
    Jackie Chan + Samurai sword bests most hovercrafts, apparently.
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    ripfire promoted this comment Edited by Slyd3z at 10/13/09 12:27 PM Slyd3z was starred Slyd3z was unstarred
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    10/13/09

    @Slyd3z: Damn. I can't remember the title of that movie.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    10/13/09

    In reply to Dream Job: Scientists Search for Arctic Asteroids on Hovercraft
    So do you also recover moon rocks so you can fake the upcoming staged missions?
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/13/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_GotOff2HoursEar...: Sounds a little unnecessary. Spray paint a few pieces of well crafted foam core and use a couple of tons of finely ground white gravel and you can show these slack-jawed Terrans Moon Landing 2.0 without a problem.
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    Image of Xeno Xeno
    10/13/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: The foam construction helps with the low gravity illusion I assume.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    10/13/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Well, you have to bring back moon rocks. Since you aren't actually going, and you can't steal them from NASA's vault anymore, you collect them from the Arctic, just like Verner Von Braun did to collect lunar meteorites to be used as fake Moon rocks.
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    Image of Trond Aasland Trond Aasland
    10/13/09

    In reply to Dream Job: Scientists Search for Arctic Asteroids on Hovercraft
    This sounds like a lego set come to life. Awesome.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/13/09

    @Trond Aasland: Add some new minifigs with new unique snow gear and lego science equipment, and I say hell yes.
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    Image of Trond Aasland Trond Aasland
    10/13/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Reminds me of the old Ice Planet 2002 series - could be a prequel of sorts to this, perhaps? [www.1000steine.com]
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/13/09

    @Trond Aasland: Ah those were the days.
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    10/13/09

    In reply to Dream Job: Scientists Search for Arctic Asteroids on Hovercraft
    No reason they couldn't put a stereo in there. Although for a trip like that, I would upgrade to satelite.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    10/13/09

    In reply to Dream Job: Scientists Search for Arctic Asteroids on Hovercraft
    Dream job? In the Arctic? Well... I guess if you like the cold.

    Also, I'm not sure I see the "woo" factor of cruising over 4 inch of ice when I've seen hovercrafts cruise easily over open water.
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    Edited by ripfire at 10/13/09 12:22 PM ripfire was starred ripfire was unstarred
    Image of Jux Jux
    10/13/09

    @ripfire: You know how those movies that have anything to do with the arctic always have that one lone female scientist?

    Giggity.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/13/09

    @Jux: Yeah, giggity if you're the lucky one she chooses, otherwise you'll have blueballs for two reasons.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    10/13/09

    @Jux: Like the one in that episode of House. Damn she was sexy when she stripped and rocked socks.
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    Image of Jux Jux
    10/13/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: I knew a girl who joined the Navy out of high school.

    That girl ... in the Navy, with the lack of options, she was like a chicken on a rotisserie. I'd imagine that, much in the same way, a girl in the arctic kind of knows what she's getting herself into.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/13/09

    @Jux: Though an interesting concept, I sort of doubt that kind of scenario is similar to the Naval environment.
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    Image of Jux Jux
    10/13/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: There's a lot of give and take, a lot of creative liberties taken, yes ... stop ruining my arctic sex orgy fantasy damn it!
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