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'Flying Saucers' to Go On Sale Soon

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the meet-george-jetson dept.

gihan_ripper writes "Perhaps the ultimate nerd acquisition, the flying car, is to go on sale in a few months. Speaking to the BBC, the inventor Dr Paul Moller described his creation, dubbed the Flying Saucer, as a VTOL aircraft designed to hover at 10 ft. above the ground. The flying saucer has eight engines and is expected to sell for $90,000. Dr Moller expects to produce a successor within six years, a 'Skycar' capable of a climb rate of 6000 ft./min. and an airspeed of 400 mph."

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  1. I'm already dead by networkBoy · · Score: 5, Funny

    from holding my breath

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    1. Re:I'm already dead by nurb432 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, never know. Perhaps he finally will sell one, its bound to happen someday.. Perhaps we will finally have HURD released as well.. Then world peace will soon to follow.... and free iPhones will fall out of the sky, off the backs of flying pigs!

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  2. I had one by MarkRose · · Score: 4, Funny

    I had a flying saucer once, but when it landed it broke into a thousand shards.

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    1. Re:I had one by waa · · Score: 2, Funny

      ...of indestructible pieces of unearthly tinfoil-like metal :)

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    2. Re:I had one by Divebus · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'd love to hear the morning traffic report if more than three of these get sold into one metro area. It ain't just fender-benders anymore, folks. The accidents are bound to be specatcular.

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  3. Yeah, it is a scam. by Gary+W.+Longsine · · Score: 4, Funny

    The last time he was in the headlines was a few years ago. The SkyCar was going to go on sale soon. What the press release and news articles didn't say was that it was *the* one and only prototype SkyCar that was going to go on sale, in the Nieman Marcaus catalog. This guy comes out with a press release every few years to raise cash for toys. Last time I looked at his web page he was also selling some kind of diet supplement pills, right on the same page with the SkyCar info! Scam scam scam scam scammity-scam scammity-scam! Can I have his scam? I like scam!

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  4. Re:oil won't like this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Keep in mind that a horse and cart is fairly stable. Cars have those really loud engines which look like they could explode at any given moment. Not saying that cars don't have their uses, but I find it hard to believe that they'll even come close to replacing the horse and cart.

  5. Re:With Moller... by king-manic · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm all out of skepticism, all I have left is disbelief.

    You roll a 18, you disbelieve the illusion.

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  6. Re:The War on Terror by LordVader717 · · Score: 3, Funny

    instead of patrolling a two-dimentional line it has to patrol a 3d surface
    You seem to have a little problem there with your dimensions.
  7. more feasible?? by Comboman · · Score: 3, Funny
    I think it [the skycar] looks a lot more feasable than other flying cars.

    That's a bit like saying the Star Trek Enterprise's warp engines look a lot more feasible than other types of faster-than-light travel like those totally unbelievable Hyperdrives from Star Wars.

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