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Posted by CalvinMaker (Member # 2032) on :

You can get this for $15k:

http://cooltech.iafrica.com/technews/851295.htm

(Sigh. I guess I'll have to wait 40 years 'til the price drops into something I can afford.)

Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :

Designed for kids, but at a price made for adults. Heck, I'd buy one if I had 15,000 lying around.

Posted by Jeffrey Getzin (Member # 1972) on :

For the same price, you could buy an MC-12b and LX-7 from Lexicon. No contest in my mind! [Big Grin]

Jeff

Posted by Chade Fallstar (Member # 5581) on :

Were I in any way rich, I would buy one. Unfortunately, the prospect of me having 15 grand to waste anytime in the future is not so good.

Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :

It takes about $300 to build a better machine. Haven't a clue as to why anyone would pay that $14,700 extra.

Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :

aspectre... willing to build me one for that price?

Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :

Plans for homemade hovercraft can be found all over the net.

Posted by Talking Fish (Member # 4855) on :

What's the point of owning one if you can't be the 15,000 dollar envy of your friends?

Edit: Note to self, log out of screen name.

[ August 31, 2003, 02:39 PM: Message edited by: Talking Fish ]

Posted by Erik Slaine (Member # 5583) on :

aspectre, you didn't see all those designer colors?! Ooooh! Pretty....

Posted by Chade Fallstar (Member # 5581) on :

But just imagine it...A security guard on a hover craft. If that's not intimidating I don't know what is.

Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :

That is a very good idea. Security guards on bright yellow hovercraft.

Intimidating, but not terribly practical.

Posted by Erik Slaine (Member # 5583) on :

He He He.... Ralph the Guard on a Hovercraft?

Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :

I suddenly got a mental image of a squad on the hover crafts and those things with 2 wheels, a plat form, and a handle thing.

Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :

I'm sorry, but a hovercraft that looks all SPACE AGE TECHNOLOGY! is just cool.

I'd buy one if I had fifteen thousand dollars to toss in a fire on a cold winter's night.

Posted by Paul Goldner (Member # 1910) on :

the physics teacher I worked with this past year built a hovercraft for 35 bucks. And the kids friggin LOVED it.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Paul, if you could get me a "recipe" from the teacher, it would make me very happy. [Big Grin]

Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :

Unless it can travel up to 25 miles an hour, its a piece of junk. I say we all chip in like... 100 bucks and buy a community one, one that I get first dibs on.

Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :

I think Paul Goldner is talking of this one.

[ September 01, 2003, 02:56 AM: Message edited by: aspectre ]

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Thanks, aspectre! [Big Grin]

Very

Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :

What could you get for 15,000 dollars? Lots and lots of chocolate.