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posted by janrinok on Monday September 02 2019, @11:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the you've-got-mail! dept.

Submitted via IRC for Bytram

The postie who went off like a rocket

A British inventor has taken up the challenge to deliver a letter across open water through donning a jet engine-powered suit, 85 years after the idea of rocket post failed.

Richard Browning has followed in the footsteps of German entrepreneur Gerhard Zucker, who tried to send mail by rocket to the Isle of Wight, in 1934.

The distance from Hurst Castle in Lymington to Fort Albert in Freshwater is 1.3 km, and is the furthest Richard has ever flown.


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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday September 03 2019, @03:36AM (4 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 03 2019, @03:36AM (#889097) Journal

    has become cool again?

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 03 2019, @03:47AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 03 2019, @03:47AM (#889100)

    We all know you're the real Unabomber.

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday September 03 2019, @03:56AM (2 children)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 03 2019, @03:56AM (#889103) Journal

      Undiebomber, you mean. I gave you wedgies in school, remember?

      • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 03 2019, @04:10AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 03 2019, @04:10AM (#889106)

        No, I mean you should confess and trade places with Kaczynski in prison.

        • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday September 03 2019, @04:26AM

          by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 03 2019, @04:26AM (#889110) Journal

          Neither you nor I are real math wizards, but let me try this. 1956 minus 1942 should equal something close to 14, amirite? When Theodore was busy becoming a real fuckwit, I was just a skinny little kid, finishing elementary school, and starting junior high school. When he actually got to work blowing people up, I was safely imprisoned aboard ship, out in the Atlantic, so the authorities would quickly disprove any such "confession" on my part.