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Saw this linked in the comments yesterday, not surprised at all to see it hit the front page today :-)

Love the pic of the cop scratching his nose wondering what to charge them with!

The way this guy fucks around with jet engines really puts a B.S. CompSci degree in perspective (and not in a good way!). Admittedly he did get a PhD from Stanford.

Did he ever build his wife that jet-powered scooter?!



Jet engines are actually in most ways a lot simpler than an internal combustion engine.

Just tighter tolerances and potentially...nasty failure modes.


Nitpick, a jet engine is an internal combustion engine.

See second paragraph, first sentence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_engine


He sure did. Go back in and scroll right down to the bottom. There's an awesome picture of it.


I didn't downvote you :( but I am guessing the reason people did (ugh) is that the last picture is just the initial setup, and they want "real" finished products, anyways, thanks for trying!


I think that's just a mockup, trying to figure out how to mount the engines and route the various wires and lines and such.


@codezero & @ufmace, thanks for letting me know. Failing fast here... :-)




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