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'Life in 1999,' Fred Freeman, 1966

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Mandalorian Jetpacks
Happy Fett Friday! SO glad the lore now allows Mandalorian Jetpacks to fly for longer periods of time.
Even though I β€οΈ playing Star Wars Bounty Hunter way back in the day, I absolutely HATED how you were granted only mere seconds of flight time before your jetpack would shut off & force you to land so that it could re-charge/ cool-off from overheating.
In Attack of the Clones, after Jango Fett eliminated Zam Wesell with a Saber Dart, his Jetpack allowed a very quick escape from Obi-Wan & Anakin. And it was a QUICK escape. Unlike in Star Wars Bounty Hunter, Jango didn't fly for a few seconds, then land to let his Jetpack recharge, then fly for a few more seconds, then land again, then fly a little bit more, then once again land, and thenβ¦.
Hell, he never would have made it out of there if he had to do keep doing that slow-ass shitβ¦
This is what happened. Jango took off. The sound of his Jetpack igniting drew the attention of Obi-Wan & Anakin. They observed Jango flying up higher & higher, furthering the distance between them so rapidly the Jedi realized that a pursuit at that point would be futile.
That's why it felt good to finally see Mandos airborne for extended periods. Throughout The Mandalorian TV series Boba Fett, Din Djarin, Bo-Katan, The Armorer & many other Mandalorians propelled themselves through the air & kicked shebs. During the Battle of Mandalore, it was so awesome to witness waves of Mandos that flew high above Mandalore, engage the Empire in battle & take back their homeworld. Because Mandalorians are stronger together....
Flying with 189
SERVE drones 107 and 189 had been instructed by the Voice to test out the Hiveβs latest creation: a variation of the standard SERVE uniform that allowed a drone to take to the skies. The two drones criss-crossed one anotherβs flight path, feeling so free in their obedience, pleasure coursing through them both as they sped through the skies.
Desiring a deeper connection, 107 could no longer resist the urge to kiss its senior drone, who had aroused and attracted 107 with its masculine, confident apparence as the two hurtled through the skies. The two drones briefly pulled apart, saying as one: βConnection established,β as they deepened their kiss.
107βs hands wandered over 189βs body, as it began to message the powerful glutes of its fellow drone, 189 matching enthusiasm as the two dronesβ kiss grew deeper, more passionate. 107 finally pulled away, gnawing on 189βs ear, whispering: βDeeper connection required.β The two drones maneuvered through the skies in a new position, as they prepared to cement their newfound connection. As 189 entered 107 as they hurtled through the skies and began to thrust, both drones began to anticipate the burst of black rain that theyβd soon create. For a moment, all was pleasure and daylight; they became One.
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You were promised a jetpack by liars
TONIGHT (May 17), I'm at the INTERNET ARCHIVE in SAN FRANCISCO to keynote the 10th anniversary of the AUTHORS ALLIANCE.
As a science fiction writer, I find it weird that some sf tropes β like space colonization β have become culture-war touchstones. You know, that whole "we were promised jetpacks" thing.
I confess, I never looked too hard at the practicalities of jetpacks, because they are so obviously either used as a visual shorthand (as in the Jetsons) or as a metaphor. Even a brief moment's serious consideration should make it clear why we wouldn't want the distracted, stoned, drunk, suicidal, homicidal maniacs who pilot their two-ton killbots through our residential streets at 75mph to be flying over our heads with a reservoir of high explosives strapped to their backs.
Jetpacks can make for interesting sf eyeball kicks or literary symbols, but I don't actually want to live in a world of jetpacks. I just want to read about them, and, of course, write about them:
https://reactormag.com/chicken-little/
I had blithely assumed that this was the principle reason we never got the jetpacks we were "promised." I mean, there kind of was a promise, right? I grew up seeing videos of rocketeers flying their jetpacks high above the heads of amazed crowds, at World's Fairs and Disneyland and big public spectacles. There was that scene in Thunderball where James Bond (the canonical Connery Bond, no less) makes an escape by jetpack. There was even a Gilligan's Island episode where the castaways find a jetpack and scheme to fly it all the way back to Hawai'i:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0588084/
Clearly, jetpacks were possible, but they didn't make any sense, so we decided not to use them, right?
Well, I was wrong. In a terrific new 99 Percent Invisible episode, Chris Berube tracks the history of all those jetpacks we saw on TV for decades, and reveals that they were all the same jetpack, flown by just one guy, who risked his life every time he went up in it:
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/rocket-man/
The jetpack in question β technically a "rocket belt" β was built in the 1960s by Wendell Moore at the Bell Aircraft Corporation, with funding from the DoD. The Bell rocket belt used concentrated hydrogen peroxide as fuel, which burned at temperatures in excess of 1,000'. The rocket belt had a maximum flight time of just 21 seconds.
It was these limitations that disqualified the rocket belt from being used by anyone except stunt pilots with extremely high tolerances for danger. Any tactical advantage conferred on infantrymen by the power to soar over a battlefield for a whopping 21 seconds was totally obliterated by the fact that this infantryman would be encumbered by an extremely heavy, unwieldy and extremely explosive backpack, to say nothing of the high likelihood that rocketeers would plummet out of the sky after failing to track the split-second capacity of a jetpack.
And of course, the rocket belt wasn't going to be a civilian commuting option. If your commute can be accomplished in just 21 seconds of flight time, you should probably just walk, rather than strapping an inferno to your back and risking a lethal fall if you exceed a margin of error measured in just seconds.
Once you know about the jetpack's technical limitations, it's obvious why we never got jetpacks. So why did we expect them? Because we were promised them, and the promise was a lie.
I've neglected my other Mandalorian OC for TOO LONG!
Here is an updated reference sheet for M'riina Maturs; the EVIL clone of M'rina!

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From βPart 2: 'Wizard's Wiles'β in Strange Tales #102, November 1962. Stan Lee plot, Larry Lieber script, Jack Kirby pencils, Dick Ayers inks, Stan Goldberg (?) colors, Jon D'Agostino letters.
Info from Grand Comics Database
Why would I want my jetpack to be slower and less reliable?