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[โ€“] HoneyMustardGas 29 points 1 week ago (12 children)

For a water powered jetpack to lift a person it is estimated to need at least 100 gallons per minute, so similarly this could be what would be needed. Even for a second, a person's bladder would need to be 1.6 gallons and expelled at a similar pressure. So not two seconds.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

3.2 gallon bladder to achieve 2 seconds? And what kind of pressure are we talking, would it just like totally blow your dick off or what

[โ€“] HoneyMustardGas 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Well, for a minute of water jetpack it is 100 gpm, so I divided 100 by 60 seconds to get 1.6... for one second so two it would be 3 and a third gallons for two seconds assuming the right pressure of 60 psi.

[โ€“] rockSlayer 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

60 psi is definitely in the "rip your dick off" range

[โ€“] HoneyMustardGas 5 points 1 week ago

We can only go 15-20 psi. I was taking the scenario as theoretically there was a human anomaly out there that could handle it lol.

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