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Offline WMCoolmon

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on: October 30, 2005, 10:46:48 pm
Oh dear

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


:lol: :lol:
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Reply #1 on: October 30, 2005, 11:51:19 pm
Okay...
 

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Reply #2 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
 

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Reply #3 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
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Reply #4 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!
  

Offline Kosh

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Reply #5 on: October 31, 2005, 02:26:07 am
Like horseless chariots........


Only less practical.
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