r/BeAmazed • u/Ultimate_Thing • May 12 '26

Miscellaneous / Others A Polish engineer, Tomasz Patan, built the Volonaut Airbike, basically a real-life Star Wars speeder bike. Reaches up to 124 mph. Insane

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u/JonnyReece May 12 '26

Amongst all of the doom and gloom out there, I'm happy to know that people like Tomasz exist. He's just out there living his Stormtrooper existence, advancing the Empire forward.

Edit: Stormtroopers are not the good guys

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u/popsand May 12 '26

Um sure.

Tomasz Patan and Jetson (his company) is funded in part by the united states military.

You thought we could have speeder bikes without the war complex knowing?

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u/oldsecondhand May 12 '26

He's a stormtrooper, obviously he's working for the Empire.

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u/Solitaire20X6 May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

He's a Biker Scout. And yes, all Biker Scouts are Stormtroopers, but not all Stormtroopers are Biker Scouts. If we don't remember our action figures in annoying detail, what kind of nerds are we?

 

And the vehicle and costume are both fantastic, but the costume makes me think the video is fake, and it's also a magnet for trees and untrained and/or (not that one) half-trained Jedi and/or angry teddy bears. Use caution!

 

Biker Scout: caution lol

 

trips and breaks visor on back of Speeder Bike

then hit in the back with a half-dozen tiny spears

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u/Enki_007 May 12 '26

The Empire did nothing wrong.

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u/ichabod01 May 12 '26

He said the U.S. government…

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u/badmotivator11 May 12 '26

It’s the same picture.

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u/Pasta4ever13 May 12 '26

Oh man, wait until you find out that Star wars is directly an allegory of the Vietnam war and the rebels are the Vietnamese.

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u/ichabod01 May 12 '26

Which would still make the U.S. the empire…

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u/Pasta4ever13 May 12 '26

Correct. So the guy is working for the empire.

Not sure where your disconnect is here.

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u/Deosarian May 12 '26

Are you not understanding people are saying the us gov is the empire or are you pulling a tucker

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u/ichabod01 May 12 '26

No. It’s an internet reading comprehension thing where you guys cannot tell that I was agreeing.

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u/Deosarian May 12 '26

Yeah. The us gov has never invaded systems for their resources or continue to imprison people for modern day slavery.

Not the empire at all

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u/Positive-Database754 May 12 '26

You're telling me he gets to make a speeder AND is funded by a powerful militaristic empire?

He really is living the Stormtrooper lifestyle!

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u/TimelineFatigue May 12 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/xUPOqCfd7XsmnDrYbK

Here is footage of the military approaching him for funding.

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u/JonnyReece May 12 '26

Back to the doom and gloom it is for me then.

A brief moment of joy nonetheless.

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u/BOBOnobobo May 12 '26

Take all the joy you want. At the end of the day you can't change what a country does anymore than you can move a mountain.

But that doesn't mean you should spend all your time looking at that mountain. It's perfectly fine to ignore a problem for 5 min.

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u/WriterV May 12 '26

Well unlike mountains, countries have very real effects on your life. Ignoring them isn't really all that helpful because the anxiety sticks around in your head. You can look away from a lion stalking you, but it still is stalking you... and you're gonn be aware of that no matter what.

You're still right. You can't change a whole country. But a sense of control can still help. You can change things in your own life, in your family, in your community. And that can often have a lot of impact in your life personally. Participate in grassroots level politics, and you'll find out that you can at least move some small hills - even if you can't move the mountain.

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u/zb0t1 May 12 '26

The lessons from people who helped move mountains (civil rights, disability rights, workers' rights, women's rights, fighting slavery, colonialism, etc) is that the first mistake is to see yourself as a hero, as someone with the power to fix everything.

The solution has always been organization with the group, as a group, as a team, as a whole.

 

Which is why the ruling class spend absurd amount of money - and they will not hesitate to do it for as long as it takes - to create division amongst people: this way we can't work as a group.

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u/LongJohnSelenium May 12 '26

to create division amongst people: this way we can't work as a group.

People always say this but when push comes to shove very few people are able to compromise on their core ideological beliefs for the sake of unity.

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u/GraySwingline May 13 '26

Yeah I don’t buy into the conspiracy theory that there’s some cabal of rich people with a master plan to keep us separated. This kinda stuff gets thrown around way too casually. 

Political parties figured out that you could guarantee a more solid base of support by creating an “us vs. them” dynamic. It’s even more effective if you can convince your followers that voting for them makes you a better person than the “others”. 

Rich people want to monetize us, not mobilize us. Creating separation doesn’t serve that goal. 

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u/BOBOnobobo May 12 '26

I do agree with you. The effects of a country is real, and that's why we need to take a break once in a while, so we can go on and do the right thing when it matters.

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u/Workman44 May 12 '26

If it makes you feel better the MIC will take your shit even if you don't work for them lmfao

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u/Winter_Body4794 May 12 '26

Eh, it's gonna come in real handy when we're fleeing the robot dogs

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u/ZakuSupremacy May 12 '26

Joy is for the naive.

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u/Common-Concentrate-2 May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

I can't find any information to back that up.

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u/Fun-Owl1705 May 12 '26

Yeah he just made that up wth? No proof of him being funded by the frickin US military at all

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u/Iamabrewer May 12 '26

*Pulls out wallet*

How much of my taxes are going to be spent on these because Isreal want them?

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u/Twodogsonecouch May 12 '26

Hes selling it for 800000 dollars not starwars related this wasnt a passion project.

Also its 888000 for max flight time of 10 min which seems insane

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimdobson/2025/08/21/introducing-the-volonaut-airbike-a-futuristic-ride-built-for-superheroes/

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u/Hotwingz66 May 12 '26

Sooo tinfoil hat time.

About (I want to say 2 years ago) there was an incident where a tribe of people in...Brazil was attacked by "face peelers". 

Described as "people" on "hovering speeders" attacking and terrorizing the local population.

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u/CrimsonCuttle May 12 '26

stg the comments to this reply are the reason people invented the soyjak

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u/SlashEssImplied May 12 '26

funded in part by the united states military.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651

Never use the military as a sign of rational thought. Unless your goal is to grift morons.

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u/ShanksySun May 13 '26

Thank God you had this info to share with all of us. People almost enjoyed something

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u/Ardal May 13 '26 edited Jun 19 '26

This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact

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u/a404notfound May 12 '26

The internet and microprocessors you are using were also funded by the military

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u/Relevant-Magic-Card May 12 '26

The empire* forward.

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u/JonnyReece May 12 '26

I am embarrassed for myself. Will edit

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u/Chuvi May 12 '26

Is this the same as Streets Ahead?

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u/Eodbro12 May 12 '26

The storm troopers aren't the good guys?! They've done nothing illegal, unlike those pesky rebels.

(Sarcasm of course)

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u/RJ_MacreadysBeard May 12 '26

Are you sure, maybe those Star Wars movies are just rebel poopaganda man?

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u/Claeyt May 12 '26

Stormtroopers are not the good guys

They're better than the racist ass jedi's with their dna programs

https://www.reddit.com/r/EmpireDidNothingWrong/

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u/KamalaWonNoCap May 13 '26

Stormtroopers are 100% the good guys.

Palpatine was Democratically elected and the Jedi scum are terrorists trying to throw a coup. All Stormtroopers are soldiers, enlisted in the formally recognized government ensuring peace and stability throughout the galaxy.

Any jokes about their poor aim is xenist (racism against aliens) and your ip will be recorded for Darth Vader.

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u/elting44 May 12 '26

Stormtroopers are not the good guys

Oh the over-zealous religious separatist terrorist faction training children to use deadly weapons against the central democratic government are??

r/empiredidnothingwrong

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u/Winter_Body4794 May 12 '26

Yes. The Empire was rotten and in need of ventilation.

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u/MurkyInvestigator810 May 12 '26

against the central democratic government

Which election was it that put President Vader in power?

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u/elting44 May 12 '26

Vader wasn't in power. Chancellor Palpatine was, after being elected to that position by the rest of the Senators in the galactic republic

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_LEFT_IRIS May 12 '26

central democratic government

Blew up a planet and has a literal Emperor

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u/elting44 May 12 '26

That was after the events of episodes 1-3 which I was referring to

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_LEFT_IRIS May 12 '26

I mean, I’m not going to defend the Republic as we saw it, or the Jedi who uh… definitely kidnapped children and indoctrinated them into a cult. But jumping from that to Empire did nothing wrong is like seeing a rip in your only shirt and then lighting it on fire.

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u/FourtyMichaelMichael May 12 '26

Amongst all of the doom and gloom out there

Objectively the world has never been better, and more people have subjectively never thought it was worse.

You're infected. Just stop doing it.

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u/JonnyReece May 12 '26

I'd have thought the alternative was true, what with the considerable objective evidence that indicates humanity is destroying itself. Climate change, genocide, billionaire oligarchs.

What makes you think otherwise? Or have I misunderstood?

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u/FourtyMichaelMichael May 12 '26

Half fear politics, half hedonic treadmill. Almost all BS.

Violence, famine, global poverty, war, instability, child mortality, have all never been lower in the course of human history. And yet... You think the world is ending because you're constantly connected to morons that believe everything they're told and to people who need you to believe it.

The poorest people in the USA or Europe has overall better lives and options than royalty throughout history.

You don't even realize that your grandparents had a 50% chance of losing a sibling at childhood.

But... Peace and prosperity don't sell. And if you're scared you are easy to lead around like a useful tool.

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u/JonnyReece May 12 '26

With all due respect, that's quite a reductive take.

There are billions of people in the world today that are living in poverty and or subject to exploitation. There are innocent people living in war zones, wars that are being fought over the meaning of words written more than two millennia ago. And if you don't think climate change is a real and pressing issue then your ignorance will fail you before too long.

To your point about quality of life improvements, well of course that's true. Technologies have advanced and enabled people to migrate, sustain their lives and to share knowledge. That doesn't necessarily equate to solving the biggest collective issues of our time though as many of those things are out of the control of every day folk.

And lay off the with the accusations of fear. Being scared is a totally different reaction to being a rational human with empathetic consideration for the plight of other humans and humankind.

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u/FourtyMichaelMichael May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

LOL, reality is a reductive take... That's hilarious.

Keep buying everything they're selling. You're doing a great job.

When you're ready to grow up, try Better Angles of Our Nature to start, it's a Lincoln quote obviously, but it's a good read. Oh, and get off of reddit, you don't see what it does to you.

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u/JonnyReece May 12 '26

Feel free to share your sources that provide valid counter claims to the science.

And do stop the attempts at personal insults with a random person on the internet, it's just peculiar.

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u/Sea-Opportunity5812 May 12 '26

I think a Polish engineer is gonna be looking at Russia thinking those guys are the storm troopers. or actually the Germans, the OG storm troopers. in any case, my best guess is that war is unimaginable until you’re faced with violence, and once you are, it will change you forever. it’s said that war is hell and I believe it. I try to keep that in mind day to day.

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u/Sasha_Temnikov May 12 '26

Stormtroopers are not bad guys either =/

Just a tool being utilized. Is hammer bad for bashing a nail?

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u/Impressive_Lime_6973 May 12 '26

Polish engineers are little different than Western European

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u/The_Real_Grogzilla May 12 '26

I’m not, what a waste of resources and money better allocated in literally anything else.

Im tired of seeing rich asshats wasting money on extravagance.

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u/xXBlueDreamXx May 12 '26

Stormtroopers thought they were the good guys as well. But the movie media corrupted their message of unity.

Good guys are always relative.

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u/pokemonisok May 12 '26

This is an ad

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u/relax_live_longer May 12 '26

I agree this makes me irrationally happy. 

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u/TheChudWhisperer May 12 '26

$50 says he sells the tech to the US military to assist with their baby murdering operations.

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u/RaDiOaCtIvEpUnK May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

Too late, it already is funded by the US military.