To be frank, as cool as that is, it is easy to overlook the same problem with drones: they are distinctively LOUD unless at a distance (and even then).
Would be interesting to corroborate whether unusual noises are associated with their arrival.
Good Q, hadn't thought of that. I think the back is providing most of the thrust and the hands are just to steer you, so you don't need to support the full bodyweight.
Didn't see the thruster on the back! However, their marketing claims you still have to support a little less than 50% of your body weight in forward flight.
I probably couldn't do that for the full 10 minute flight time though.
seriously! it's literally a Scooby Doo plot. what's next, Shaggy and Velma manage to tie them up, and Fred unmasks them to discover it's an evil developer who wants to scare the locals away?
They have seen these beings in villages near Iquitos too. They call them pelacaras, face peelers. Someone I know saw 4 beings flying about one meter above the ground outside her house last week.
Would illegal miners even have access to jetpacks?
Back in the 80’s this is the sort of news I was promised would happen in the 2000’s! Finally! Now if only the LLM controlling the jet pack found an ethical dilemma in its new life of crime and decided to cut power mid flight and avenge the villagers we’d be fully in a William Gibson novel!
I wonder if there's a word in English to describe this.
A headline/sentence like this would be so absolutely ridiculous in a work of fiction, but there's no such bar, so to speak, for real life!
Seems like there's a lot of easier and more lucrative ways to make money off of being the first folks to create and operate useful jet packs than illegal mining
