For the jetpack doubters (I was one too), someone posted this link on slashdot. Scroll down a bit and you’ll see a picture of a girl who snapped a picture on her phone of what is very clearly a guy in a jetpack of some kind. The theory is the miners use them to scout new locations to see if enough minerals are present to clear a road to them.
Rock and Stone!
RnD really outdid themselves with the new rocket boots.
Oh, it’s just miners with jetpacks… Wait, wtf?!
Commercial jetpacks are available for some time now, there are even jetpack attractions.
Miners are the last people in my mind that would use jetpacks. I mean, they’re usually deep underground, right?
I feel like underground mines are more and more a thing of thr past, I have seen many an operating surface mine but only old mines that were converted to attractions.
Not when they’re harassing villagers obviously
It’s never aliens, unfortunately.
Aliens make more sense than ilegal miners flying in jetpacks.
I’m doubting either explanation in this case.
I wish I was a flying miner pretending to be an alien so that I could harass villagers in Peru. That would be so awesome.
The cops were watching Scooby Doo, and were like “Yes, lets go with that”.
I thought Vice.com went under.
Aliens sounds more believable than that
Commercial jetpacks are available for some time now, there are even jetpack attractions.
I think this might be the first time that the official explanation is less believable than the conspiracy.
What a genius getaway vehicle.
CJ agrees.
Hope they crash and get nursed back to health by the indigenous people, undergo a spiritual awakening, and lead a violent uprising against the mining company.
I think this could make a great movie!
We could call it Fern Gully: Origins and make it a realistic CGI with expressionless talking animals (and whoever is doing the work of Robin Williams and Tim Curry these days but worse).
Not quite as fantastical as aliens, but miners with jetpacks sounds sci-fi as fuck.
Commercial jetpacks are available for some time now, there are even jetpack attractions.
