Archived-Discussions Water-powered jet packby The Seasteading Institute2009-02-042023-12-03A seastead resort would of course have air and water sports equipment for vacationers. This would make a nice addition – a water-powered jet pack! Imagine doing this on the ocean…Share:Tags:funresortvideo previousJanuary 2009 NewsletternextEngineering Q&A Webcast: About to happen 5 thoughts on “Water-powered jet pack” Thorizan 2009-02-04 at 4:15 pm Log in to Reply That would be a blast (pun intended). Life on the seas is sounding funner and funner every day. Carl Pålsson 2009-02-04 at 11:36 pm Log in to Reply It is interesting how water makes experimenting with something like this practical. Doing the same thing over land would be quite dangerous. Joep 2009-02-04 at 11:38 pm Log in to Reply Couldn’t this develop into a safe way to get from a ship on the seastead and vice versa? Water is also powerful enough to lift a car: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFEOctt9-UE We’d need a fire department on Seastead anyway, won’t we 🙂 Thorizan 2009-02-05 at 2:51 am Log in to Reply Unless everything was made of pykrete, yes. 🙂 Al3x 2009-02-05 at 5:48 am Log in to Reply this is pretty cool , could probably used for other things beside “fun” Leave a Reply Cancel replyYou must be logged in to post a comment.
Thorizan 2009-02-04 at 4:15 pm Log in to Reply That would be a blast (pun intended). Life on the seas is sounding funner and funner every day.
Carl Pålsson 2009-02-04 at 11:36 pm Log in to Reply It is interesting how water makes experimenting with something like this practical. Doing the same thing over land would be quite dangerous.
Joep 2009-02-04 at 11:38 pm Log in to Reply Couldn’t this develop into a safe way to get from a ship on the seastead and vice versa? Water is also powerful enough to lift a car: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFEOctt9-UE We’d need a fire department on Seastead anyway, won’t we 🙂
Al3x 2009-02-05 at 5:48 am Log in to Reply this is pretty cool , could probably used for other things beside “fun”
That would be a blast (pun intended). Life on the seas is sounding funner and funner every day.
It is interesting how water makes experimenting with something like this practical. Doing the same thing over land would be quite dangerous.
Couldn’t this develop into a safe way to get from a ship on the seastead and vice versa?
Water is also powerful enough to lift a car: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFEOctt9-UE
We’d need a fire department on Seastead anyway, won’t we 🙂
Unless everything was made of pykrete, yes. 🙂
this is pretty cool , could probably used for other things beside “fun”