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    Slicer Brings Sledding to Summertime

    The Rocket Sled that Made Winter Cry

    Millennium Falcon Sled is as Close as You'll Ever Get to the Real Thing

    X-WIng Sled is Porkins' Transport of Choice in Tahoe

    Alu Sled Shock-Absorbs Your Butt on Bumpy Downhill Slopes

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    Image of P3nnst8r P3nnst8r
    02/18/09

    In reply to Slicer Brings Sledding to Summertime
    That would seriously suck spilling out on tho.
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    Image of Segador Segador
    02/18/09

    In reply to Slicer Brings Sledding to Summertime
    If she comes with it, I'm all in.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    02/18/09

    @Segador:


    i don't think she can come with it, unless she has a hair trigger so to speak.

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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    02/18/09

    In reply to Slicer Brings Sledding to Summertime
    Um, I think they have these things called wheels now that work pretty well for going down hills...
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    Image of Enigmaaron1 Enigmaaron1
    02/18/09

    In reply to Slicer Brings Sledding to Summertime
    Wouldn't mind putting grass stains on her... (too young? ehh, it's the interweb I'm safe here right?)
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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    02/18/09

    @Enigmaaron1: You're fiiiiine...


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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    02/18/09

    @BeautifulAgony: Funny that we posted the same exact thing at almost the same exact time.
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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    02/18/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Great minds think alike? ;) (and that's just a blatantly obvious way of trying to elevate myself to your status!)
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    Image of Jestermeister Jestermeister
    02/18/09

    @Enigmaaron1: I wonder what percentage of Gizmodo commenters have pedophilistic tendencies. A quick scroll through the comments so far would peg it about half...
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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    02/18/09

    @jestermeister: I'm guessing it's pretty high. After Giz posted the second Microsoft ad with a little girl the comments section was practically swamped with commenters making accusations of Microsoft being pedophiles. Made me wonder what they saw in the video that the rest of us didn't.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    02/19/09

    @BeautifulAgony: "Made me wonder what they saw in the video that the rest of us didn't."


    You really don't want to know the answer to that..

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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    02/19/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake: I'm probably shouldn't, but I do. I just need to know things! It's my weakness, I guess.
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    Image of acemannw acemannw
    02/18/09

    In reply to Slicer Brings Sledding to Summertime
    Chicks sledding down the hill in short shorts!!!! SWEET
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    02/18/09

    @acemannw: Watch out for her brother.


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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    02/18/09

    @Shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: He looks like he's gonna just jump and bite you in the face.


    "Holy shit! it's the attack of Eddie Munster!"

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    Image of Guy Whitey Corngood Guy Whitey Corngood
    02/18/09

    In reply to Slicer Brings Sledding to Summertime
    a young Kylie Minogue as the sled model, eh?
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    Image of tsunamitomi tsunamitomi
    02/18/09

    @Guy_Whitey_Corngood: Que up the Pedo-bear ASCII please :)
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    02/18/09

    @Guy_Whitey_Corngood: It's obviously one of the Olsen twins.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    02/18/09

    @tsunamitomi: Photobucket
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    Image of Scotland Scotland
    02/18/09

    @Guy_Whitey_Corngood: Americans know about Kylie Minogue? Is this true?
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    02/18/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: You mean the girl or the sled?
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    02/18/09

    @Scotland: Yeah we chewed her up and spit her out years ago. Aside from the Loco-Motion and Street Fighter I couldn't tell you what she's done though...
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    12/26/08

    In reply to The Rocket Sled that Made Winter Cry
    He's also made a rocket powered toilet, and a different kind of sled, which was still rocket powered: [www.the-rocketman.com]



    Video here: [www1.nrk.no]


    Found all of this on his website: [www.the-rocketman.com]

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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    12/26/08

    In reply to The Rocket Sled that Made Winter Cry
    For 2009, I think we should compile "10 Gadgets That Have No Business Using a Rocket Engine"
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    Image of scarbrtj scarbrtj
    12/26/08

    In reply to The Rocket Sled that Made Winter Cry
    Rocketman... amazes me! High-flying bird.


    Whenever you're ready... return to Paradise. (I cry at night.)

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    Image of cso1982 cso1982
    12/26/08

    @scarbrtj: elton fan are we? nicely done though.
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    Image of scarbrtj scarbrtj
    12/26/08

    @cso1982:
    Big one. Funny you got that. A couple years ago my wife & I were leaving Bluepoint Restaurant in Atlanta late at night. Going up the stairway, some guy had bumped into my left shoulder and was sort of not making the most clear path for me to exit. I turned and immediately knew it was Elton. We exchanged hello's; he was actually very gracious. He humored me for several minutes, even invited me to eat with him!
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    Image of Bos'un's Mate Bos'un's Mate
    12/26/08

    In reply to The Rocket Sled that Made Winter Cry
    Now that's one way to climb back up the effin' hill.
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    Image of NotSoSiniSter NotSoSiniSter
    12/26/08

    In reply to The Rocket Sled that Made Winter Cry
    if your not as ambitious, you can just spray the bottom with no stick cooking spray. :D
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    12/26/08

    @NotSoSiniSter: That wasn't no stick cooking spray. It was a non-caloric, silicone based, kitchen lubricant.
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    Image of discounteggroll discounteggroll
    12/26/08

    In reply to The Rocket Sled that Made Winter Cry
    how does one measure speed on a sled? wind resistance? or is it just one of those "fauxdometers" that has a sticker of an odometer slapped on it?
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/26/08

    @discounteggroll: I'm guessing the object that appears to be a gauge is either showing burn time for the rocket fuel or how much thrust it's making..
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    Image of ksat ksat
    12/26/08

    Not to be mean or anything, but, I hope this guy died doing this so he can become the next winner of the 2008 Darwin Awards!


    Idiot!

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/26/08

    @ksat: Well it's no Chevy Impala so I'm guessing he's still kicking..
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    Image of Mark Wilson Mark Wilson
    12/26/08

    @discounteggroll: Peemeter.
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    Image of snoop-blog snoop-blog
    12/26/08

    @discounteggroll: there is a mathematical formula to get the speed. It would literally take 5 mins of web search to find it. measure your distance and use a stop watch to time how long it took to go the measured distance. Here is one "rate=distance/time". Or in this case it would be "mph=distance traveled/hours it took to travel it". That would actually be easy to do for someone who could build a rocket sled.


    With that said, it's important to know that not even your car's speedometer is 100% exact. Things like rim/tire size can easily offset the reading slightly. My brother put super swamper tires on his truck and that gave it difference of 2mph. So nothing really noticable.

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    Image of Bos'un's Mate Bos'un's Mate
    12/26/08

    @discounteggroll: Chip log and an hour glass?
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/26/08

    In reply to The Rocket Sled that Made Winter Cry
    Man, I've destroyed a few Flexible Flyers in my day, without having any rockets strapped to them.


    Pretty sure I'd have shared the same fate as Sonny Bono if I had one of these as a kid...

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    Image of Dr. H. F. Danger Dr. H. F. Danger
    12/26/08

    In reply to The Rocket Sled that Made Winter Cry
    Rocket man


    burning out his fuse up here...


    alone

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    Image of bonniegrrl bonniegrrl
    12/15/08

    In reply to Millennium Falcon Sled is as Close as You'll Ever Get to the Real Thing
    Fastest hunk of junk on the slopes!
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