'Catapults are a great way to get somewhere fast,' says Elon Musk as one sends man flying

Tesla and SpaceX chief Elon Musk on Thursday appeared to endorsed the idea of Catapults for faster commuting - though hopefully not seriously as far as the technology goes at the moment. Musk jokingly said that 'Catapults are a great way to get somewhere fast' as he retweeted a viral video of a man who is flung from one building to another using catapults.

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The video shows that a man sitting on catapults aiming to reach the next building where a net is placed for his safe landing. However, things appear to not go as planned and the man on the catapult crosses the building as he flies through the air, and the organisers run, leaving the scene at a cliffhanger.

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Netizens react

The video gained a lot of mixed reactions from the netizens. One of the users said "Hear me out: A giant catapult that shoots a rocket like 50% of the way straight up, then the engines kick in and take it the rest of the way into space. Save 50% on fuel costs. Big brain logic. Hire me". while another user sarcastically said, "We need more of those". Many other users jokingly advised Elon Musk to launch a rocket using this technique while the rest claimed the video was fake.

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