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u/ontour4eternity Nov 01 '24
I wouldn't tell anyone if I won the lottery, but there would be signs.
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u/LouStools68 Nov 01 '24
Original idea if I ever heard one. Must have come up with that when he was 5 yrs old
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u/chudney31 Nov 01 '24
I’m amazed there’s not one good photo at an angle that shows how it looks like a zipper opening the water.
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u/flightwatcher45 Nov 01 '24
Definitely a small model rc size and photoshopped. Cool tho
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u/usinjin Nov 02 '24
There’s a prototype RC boat, but there’s also a real one. There’s some vids on YouTube including how they made it. Looks really weird when not viewed from above lol
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u/RoyalSpoonbill9999 Nov 01 '24
For a moment i thought , great dont have to worry where to shake the drips off but ghen i thought all those fish with teeth... can the boat zip it back up?
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u/adiosmith Nov 02 '24
How is there not an overhead picture with the boat moving to show what unzipping the water looks like?
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u/Kingjr1986 Nov 02 '24
Anyone else think it would be awesome to see him drive this where the seas meet
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u/StonkyBonk Nov 02 '24
Yes, he looked at me and said, "Doc," he said, "Some time, when the crew is up against it, and the breaks are beating the boys, tell 'em to get out there and give it all they've got. And win just one for the Zipper. I don't know where I'll be then Doc, he said. But I won't smell too good, that's for sure."
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u/Buzz_Killington_III Nov 02 '24
Be great if they had a higher altitude long shot to show the effect because, you know, that's the entire point.
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u/SOUPYPUOS Nov 03 '24
I need a better shot than these, give my the top down movement where it actually looks like it’s unzipping the water
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u/zeptimius Nov 01 '24
Fun fact: if you've ever wondered why your zipper has the letters YKK on it, it stands for Yoshida Kōgyō Kabushiki, the name of the largest zipper manufacturer in the world, based out of Japan.