# Rocket Man. How cool is this? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 16, 2008, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocket-man-how-cool-is-this/449528 "2008-05-16T06:55:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocket-man-how-cool-is-this/449528/21 "2008-05-16T17:04:46Z")
[QUOTE=garygnu] Very cool, but he needs a new [helmet](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B000EB9ZII/ref=dp_image_text_0?ie=UTF8&n=165793011&s=toys-and-games). [/QUOTE] That’s one of many innovations that would have made this way cooler. Another would have been some lasers he could have used to blow shit up. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocket-man-how-cool-is-this/449528/22 "2008-05-16T17:07:29Z")
Out of curiosity would that device have gotten him safely out of a window on the Twin Towers in New York before they fell on 9/11/2001? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocket-man-how-cool-is-this/449528/23 "2008-05-16T17:14:02Z")
[QUOTE=astro] Out of curiosity would that device have gotten him safely out of a window on the Twin Towers in New York before they fell on 9/11/2001? [/QUOTE] I’m sure he wouldn’t have been any worse off, but probably no better off. It looks like he couldn’t get enough velocity from a standing start. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocket-man-how-cool-is-this/449528/24 "2008-05-16T18:30:26Z")
I one of those YouTube videos, one of the commenters says something like “Wow, what a perfect way for those Muslim assholes to blow themselves up.” Talk about a buzzkill, eh? I mean, here’s a really nifty technological feat you’re seeing, yet you’re the one implementing it in your mind for evil. Maybe they have already won. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2008, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocket-man-how-cool-is-this/449528/25 "2008-05-16T18:40:06Z")
Has anyone yet assessed if this guy is associated with [Extensive Enterprises](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomax_and_Xamot)? This thing looks just like that thing that Cobra used in the old GI Joe cartoons. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2008, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocket-man-how-cool-is-this/449528/26 "2008-05-17T05:16:40Z")
[QUOTE=pantheon] Have you guys seen the “batwing” suits, people gliding along cliffs at 150+MPH like flying squirrels? Amazing stuff (although nothing like the jet/wings- that was bitchin’), google it up if you haven’t seen. Here’s one: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYwZlDp5x6Y](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYwZlDp5x6Y) [/QUOTE] Yeah, those things are awesome. I remember once seeing a video of guys using them in the Scandinavian fjords. Amazing stuff. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rocket-man-how-cool-is-this/449528.md?page=1)