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Build Your Own Flying Lawn Mower

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the lawn-ranger dept.

Ant writes "Ever seen a flying lawn mower (streaming; download 5.1 MB WMV file) before? I haven't. The WMV video file description says: 'FlyingThingZ Sky Cutter .40 V2 flying at Moon Lake's Annual Make a Wish Foundation Airshow for 2004'. More information can be found on the official Web site. Seen on Blue's News. My good friend, KaT, brought up a good question: 'Since lawns (also known as grass) live usually less than 6" from the ground, how would flying help them do their job better?'"

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  1. Re:Mirror by isometrick · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, I don't know whether it was cached, or if we have some linkage over Internet2, or whatever ... but I just downloaded that from you at 2 megaBYTES per second. I literally got it in less than 3 seconds.

    I don't think your university's network is going down anytime soon.

  2. Re:Mirror by Fallen_Knight · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    only 52k/sec for me