Well, easier than if he failed totally to ever hit the ground certainly *g*.
"Isn't it hard to fly a plane?" "No, not really. Taking off is more difficult." "How about coming down?" "Coming down is REALLY REALLY EASY. Surviving it is the tricky part..."
Alas, as I understand it, it doesn't have the thrust for a takeoff from a standing start. You have to jump off a cliff, tall building or get dropped from a plane.
So introducing these by the thousands - or even the hundreds - into the skies over Manhattan, Los Angeles or Tokyo for example, may not be the best of ideas, then?
(best "Red Rose Tea Commercial" voice) Pity. (/best "Red Rose Tea Commercial" voice)
Not if I happen to live UNDER the inevitable three dimensional traffic collision, thanks. (Bad enough with the frippin' helicopters overhead at all hours of the night.)
Oh my - the wee hours are getting less wee. Time to shut up and go to bed...
Save for the facts that I am an acrophobe, that I don't have the space, money or skills to buy or maintain it, and that the airspace around where I live is so Balkanized that flying would be impractical, if not impossible, I still want one!
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Date: 2008-09-25 01:34 pm (UTC)Which will make the afterparty all that much cooler, yes?
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Date: 2008-09-25 01:55 pm (UTC)"Isn't it hard to fly a plane?"
"No, not really. Taking off is more difficult."
"How about coming down?"
"Coming down is REALLY REALLY EASY. Surviving it is the tricky part..."
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Date: 2008-09-25 04:59 pm (UTC)(best "Red Rose Tea Commercial" voice)
Pity.
(/best "Red Rose Tea Commercial" voice)
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Date: 2008-09-26 09:26 am (UTC)Oh my - the wee hours are getting less wee. Time to shut up and go to bed...
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Date: 2008-09-25 05:02 pm (UTC)Might need skates though...
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Date: 2008-09-26 02:45 am (UTC)Well...
Date: 2008-09-26 06:47 pm (UTC)(bwah-ha-ha!)