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    Student Plans to Mod Old OutRun Cabinet Into a Car

    Air Board Personal Hovercraft Offers Opportunities for Embarrassment

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

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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    11/11/09

    In reply to Student Plans to Mod Old OutRun Cabinet Into a Car
    If this works, this could be the coolest thing I have ever seen. And for everybody who asks "What happens if kids run across the street?" and "What happens when he hits a pothole at 80 mph?" Shut up. This thing ain't never going to be street legal, and won't go higher than 20 mph. This guy will get high with his buddies, and try to drive this thing down the hallway in the dorms, and hit a wall, and that will be the end of it. If it does work, however, then in 10 years we'll all be working for this guy, or we'll all be dead by his hand. #outrun
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    Image of Monty Monty
    11/11/09

    In reply to Student Plans to Mod Old OutRun Cabinet Into a Car
    Having a bumper car ring filled with vehicles like this (with proper safety harnesses, bumpers, and so forth) might actually be a lot of fun. Bonus points if the other bumper cars would show up "virtually" in the Out Run videogame.

    As for use on public roads, I suspect the Department of Licensing might take issue with the CRT air bag. Just a guess. #outrun
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    Image of FartSponge FartSponge
    11/11/09

    @Monty: Or a go-cart track with these things on it. Might be easier to render a pre-designed course. #outrun
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    Image of The Lab The Lab
    11/11/09

    In reply to Student Plans to Mod Old OutRun Cabinet Into a Car
    That video did little to explain anything. The soundtrack, however, was awesome. #outrun
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    11/11/09

    In reply to Student Plans to Mod Old OutRun Cabinet Into a Car
    Occam's Razor states: entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.

    Example: adding a camera to display video of images that could be directly visible through a window. The complexity is less efficient than the simple.

    Little known fact: Occam's Razor does not apply to stupid YouTube-esque stunts. Multiply away! #outrun
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    Image of met2art met2art
    11/11/09

    @OCEntertainment: It's the corollary, Occam's Raiser: The complexity of the idea, design, or apparatus shall be needlessly multiplied in order to merge as many ridiculous and/or unnecessary steps as possible to achieve somehting which is impractical, yet inherently and unfathomably desirable. Correspondingly, the safety and practicality of the whole shall diminish exponentially with the addition of each needlessly wasteful component.
    QED #outrun
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    11/11/09

    @OCEntertainment: I'd be afraid to use a razor that talks...

    Anyway, so this Occam guy must not like Rube-Goldberg machines eh? I don't like him. #outrun
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    11/11/09

    @met2art: Ah, so the Rube Goldberg principle?

    And, I believe you meant to say "QED, bitches." It's ok, I take your meaning.

    Edit: @Geisrud, you punk. Beat me to it by a hair.
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    Edited by OCEntertainment at 11/11/09 11:55 AM OCEntertainment was starred OCEntertainment was unstarred
    Image of met2art met2art
    11/11/09

    @OCEntertainment: Quite similar to the Rube Goldberg principle. I would say the only difference is that the Rube Goldberg principle almost explicitly implies the chain reaction of multiple events intended to perform one simple task, often in a deliberately humorous way. Occam's Raiser implies an unintended escalation of complexity through the merging of two (or more) devices to create a new device that is more dangerous (and less useful) than the sum of its parts.

    Perhaps another appropriate term I could coin would be "disconvergence" where two ostensibly useful devices are rendered less than ideally operable (or unsafe) by virtue of being unified into an unstable and incoherent whole. #outrun
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy GitEmSteveDave_HazEnvy
    11/11/09

    @met2art: I prefer Occam's Kaiser: but that mostly applies to Macs and cats as hats. #outrun
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    Image of Kevin Murphy Kevin Murphy
    11/11/09

    @met2art: You mean like Knife-Wrench? #outrun
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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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    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 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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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    10/23/09

    @11thRS: Darleks?? Are they anything like Daleks?
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    Edited by Jrsy Devil's Advocate® at 10/23/09 3:11 PM Jrsy Devil's Advocate® was starred Jrsy Devil's Advocate® was unstarred
    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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