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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: WMCoolmon on October 30, 2005, 10:46:48 pm

Title: Old but funny
Post by: WMCoolmon on October 30, 2005, 10:46:48 pm

Oh dear (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2989000.stm)

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The machine's creator, Dean Kamen, wants to see US Special Forces troops eventually ride Segways into battle.

:lol: :lol:

Title: Old but funny
Post by: Deepblue on October 30, 2005, 11:51:19 pm

Okay...

Title: Old but funny
Post by: Mongoose on October 31, 2005, 12:04:58 am

It amazes me how things like this become "news"...

...and even more so that they're resurrected more than two years after they occur :p

Title: Old but funny
Post by: WMCoolmon on October 31, 2005, 12:41:05 am

I have this idea of a picture of US Special Forces, rolling along on these things across a desert terrain, with little clouds of dust floating up behind each one, while in the lower right a bunch of Arab soldiers cower in the lower right of the frame.

It's like something out of the 50s. :lol:

How could they ever think they would be more combat-viable than a friggin' scooter? :p

Title: Old but funny
Post by: Mongoose on October 31, 2005, 01:33:25 am

Because...they were supposed to change the world!  They're the invention of teh future!  The world will never be the same!

Title: Old but funny
Post by: Kosh on October 31, 2005, 02:26:07 am

Like horseless chariots........


Only less practical.