Real-life jetpack tested out on roller skates

[Rusty_Blazenhoff]

Originally published at: Real-life jetpack tested out on roller skates | Boing Boing

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[RickMycroft]

Pioneers in the field:

Rocket Ice Skater Invention Test Archival Public Domain Footage PublicDomainFootage.com

(It’s amazing how many companies want to sell this public domain footage.)

[GulliverFoyle]

Safety third

[David_Guilbeaul]

That’s Fritz Opel, right?

[Otherbrother]

This will not end well.

Beep Beep e Wile Coyote - Rollerskating #2

It NEVER ends well.

Wil E Coyote's Rocket Skates to Rocket Power Theme.

Although I commend the creative effort.

[GratuitousFish]

Came here for this. Leaving satisfied

[RickMycroft]

Those would be a nice addition to a Mad Max hellscape, or a friendly game of Rollerball.

[Franko]

well, that was delightful – his gleeful nerdiness is inspiring.

[bryan]

His build quality makes me wanna give away all my tools and just stick to digging ditches.

I figured he’d recruit some speedskaters to try it, though. Not knocking derby girls in the slightest, but quads just aren’t the right tool for that job. I can do halfway decent a 0–20 sprint on 5x100 skates, so a speedskater worth recruiting for such a video (I can’t imagine Eddy Matzger would say no to such a request) should be able to do some really gonzo numbers with that thing.

[Robbo]

“How do I look?” - “Like a hood ornament.”

[knoxblox]

@Franko

his gleeful nerdiness is inspiring

Nerds. We’re beyond the confines of cool.

[Bobo]

Clearly there’s a mass of skater to top speed relationship.

Time to recruit some small children!

[Yasif]

YIKES!

(a word not a sentence ffs)

[HMSGoose]

There’s a subtle, but explicit Wile-e shoutout at about 09:35…

[deltaecho]

I cannot say why but the self-serve jet fuel part was exciting.

[hecep]

All of that just to get a chance at dating a roller derby skater!