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99% Invisible
Steve Lado, the author of the book "The Great American Jetpack", was quoted discussing how much funding the military has and how it is spent on developing technologies that would give them an advantage in war, such as jetpacks.
Steve Lado is the author of the book the great American jetpack Anything that can give you an advantage in war is something your military wants
— Episode: 582- Rocket Man
Episode: 582- Rocket Man
Steve Lado, the author of the book "The Great American Jetpack", was quoted discussing how much funding the military has and how it is spent on developing technologies that would give them an advantage in war, such as jetpacks.
Steve Lado is the author of the book the great American jetpack Anything that can give you an advantage in war is something your military wants
Steve told me it is very common to find stories like this online
Steve did not get to go to the museum, but he sent someone to take photos
They made it a concerted effort to get these things into the media not just in front of newspaper reporters But on camera on television so as an episode of Gilligan's Island where Gilligan finds a jetpack
There was a bit of over promising going on Newspaper reporters would say these things are on the horizon We've got one doing this now and pretty soon we'll be doing that and we don't know where that stretch came from