Jet-Powered Wheelchair

gpmcdermott writes "What does a man with too much time, a jet engine, and his mother-in-law's wheelchair, do? The BBC is reporting on the results on the Beeb."

What's he doing?

[romper]

I'd say he's trying to get rid of his Mother-in-Law.

Re:What's he doing?

[Nos.]

I know I've considered attaching a jet engine to my mother in law before. Of course she's not in a wheel chair, but moving her a few hundred miles away quickly would be a desireable outcome!

Re:What's he doing?

[dcphoenix]

But, wouldn't that be a waste of a perfectly good jet engine? Well, that is unless you actually went those few hundred miles to recover it.......

Re:What's he doing?

[Ignignot]

Like how that old hag in gremlins got shot out of her house on the sup'd up stair climber?

That movie always warms the cockles of my tiny heart.

Re:What's he doing?

[jaaron]

I'd say he's trying to get rid of his Mother-in-Law

Oh, and here I was thinking he was shooting for a Darwin Award [darwinawards.com].

Re:What's he doing?

[Webmoth]

He'll have to do one better than this guy [darwinawards.com], who only rated an honorable mention.

Re:What's he doing?

[swordboy]

For those also interested in trying to get rid of their mother-in-laws, check out Nye Thermodynamics [gas-turbines.com]. This guy has made turbine engines out of automotive turbochargers, put helicopter engines into boats, and just plain done some cool stuff with turbines.

Re:What's he doing?

[NeoSkandranon]

Looks like he should have put one of those turbines on his webserver....it's gone

Re:What's he doing?

[JustAnotherReader]

I'd say he's trying to get rid of his Mother-in-Law

So this guy is sitting in his living room and it's raining cats and dogs outside. The wind's howling and it's just pouring. There's a knock at the door so he gets up to answer it. He opens the door and his mother in law is standing there. The man says: "Oh my gosh. Don't just stand there in the rain getting soaking wet. Go Home! " Thanks. I'm here all week. Please tip your wait staff.

Peering into my crystal ball...

[grub]

I'm not claiming to be psychic but my gut feeling is that Giuseppe Cannella's last words will be "Hey, watch this!"

Candidate for improvement?

[VinceWuzHere]

What, no skid lid? (see photo in story) [agv.com]... Hmmm... Why do I suspect that, after many attempts, this fellow will be featured here? [darwinawards.com]

For his next projects, Giuseppe will be working on Jet-Powered Segways, aptly to be named JetWays.

Helmets are expensive

[wowbagger]

Helmets are expensive, and if you fall down and skid on one, it really screws the paint up, and that costs a lot to fix.

So this guy figgers (sic) that he'll just skid on his skull - bone and skin grow back, and it's not like it is a vital organ or anything....

It's like the squids you see riding the donorcycles wearing nothing but cut-offs and sunglasses - getting your cloths torn up (in non-cool-group approved ways) is expensive, but skin is cheap.

Re:Helmets are expensive

[shadowlordseth]

Reading stuff like this brings tears to my eyes. On july 15 I was cut off while riding my 2000 r6. I was wearing a helmet (damn now its all scratched up), but that was all. I didnt get much road rash, so leathers wouldn't have helped much. I spent 2.5 weeks in the hospital (80k in med bills, anyone know of anyway to get help on uninsured med bills?), my pelvis is both shattered and broken, as is my wrist. I have 10 pins, and 2 external fixators. I will be out of work for atleast another 2 or 3 months. Lots of pain and stuff, lots of general badness, and lots of money troubles.

Then i see people riding with out helmets, on tv, on the internet. Soon Virginia will get rid of its helmet law. I am really saddened when i see this kind of thing

Re:Helmets are expensive

[Rakshasa Taisab]

How did a helmet help you there? If you hadn't been wearing a helmet you would have avoided the hospital bill and the recovery time.

Re:Helmets are expensive

[porlw]

Decent leathers contain shock absorbing armour - the modern stuff is very effective and would almost certainly have helped reduce your injuries.

Re:Helmets are expensive

[vivian]

I wrote off a CBR400 T-boning a car that pulled a U-turn right in front of me. I was probably doing about 25mph at impact (because I was able to break some before hitting), and flew over the back of the car. I was wearing full Dainese racing leathers, helmet gloves & boots.
The gloves took a lot of damage, I slid into the gutter & hit my shin very hard on the curb and the bike ended up on my foot. my only injuries were a bit of bruising on my foot - the shin armor in the leathers spread the curb impact over my whole shin, so I didn't get hurt at all by that - but it would have broken my leg without the armor. The arm, shoulder area and & hip also took a bit of abrasion, and I was also a bit bruised on my hip, but again the padding there helped absorb a lot of the impact, so I reckon the $1000 investment in the leathers was definitely worth the money.

Here's some info on abrasion resistance of different materials:
Reprint from a
Sept 88 "Cycle" magazine article "Abrasion Testing: Torn in the USA".

Drag Test

"For the Drag Test, samples were stitched to a bag that held a 75-pound
sandbag inside a milk crate, then dragged behind a pickup truck..."

New, 100% Cotton Denim Jeans 3' 10"
Senior Balistic Nylon 3' 10"
Leather, Lightweight, Nude Finish, 2.25 oz/sq. ft. 4' 3"
Leather, Fashion Weight, 1.75 oz/sq ft. 4' 4"
Two-year-old 100% Cotton Denim Jeans 4' 5"
Cordura Nylon Type 440 18' 3"
Kevlar 29 Aramid Fiber, Style 713 22' 1"
Leather, Competition Weight, 3 oz/sq. ft. 86' 0"

Taber Test

"For the Taber Test, the specimen was mounted on a rotating platform and
scuffed by two rubber-emery grinding wheels." The numbers represent the
number of revolutions until the fabric totally fails. A vacuum clears
debris.

Two-year-old 100% Cotton Denim Jeans: 168
New 100% Cotton Denim Jeans: 225
Kevlar 29 Aramid Fiber, Style 713: 506
Cordura Nylon, Type 440: 559
Leather, Lightweight, Nude Finish, 2.25 oz./sq. ft.: 564
Leather, Fashion Weight, 1.75 oz./sq. ft. 750
Senior Ballistic Nylon: 817
Leather, Competition Weight, 3 oz./sq. ft.: 2600

More to consider...

"Finally, protection from road abrasion cannot be guaranteed by a
materials abrasion resistance alone. A jacket may have panels of
highly abrasion-resistant materials, yet if low-quality stitching joins
those panels and the seams come apart upon impact or during a slide, then
the abrasion resistance of the panels could count for nothing.
Furthermore, an ill-fitting garment may ride up in a slide, contorting
the body and exposing the skin. And the best jacket in the world, left
unzipped and/or unsnapped, won't give riders the protection they pay
for. When it comes to safety, the issues are more complex than just the
abrasion resistance of materials."

Medical Bills?

[temojen]

Isn't that what manditory auto (bike) insurance is for? Maybe it doesn't work the same way where you are, but here liability and medical expense insurance is mandatory for all motor vehicles. It's also (at least until the fascist provincial government privatizes it) provided by a crown corporation that is VERY good about documented medical expenses, and has reasonable rates for basic insurance. Own damage (repairs to your vehicle, even if you're liable) and fire, theft, and vandalism insurance can be had fr

Re:Medical Bills?

[Qzukk]

Works great until you're the one on the ground watching the car speed off into the distance. Or you have a wreck with a broke uninsured person.

Some policies have additional coverage you can buy if you get in a wreck with an uninsured motorist. You get the money from your own insurance company, they spend the time in court or with collection agencies. Not cheap in my neck of the woods where a lot of people are uninsured despite the law.

Re:Helmets are expensive

[RESPAWN]

Then i see people riding with out helmets, on tv, on the internet. Soon Virginia will get rid of its helmet law. I am really saddened when i see this kind of thing

First, let me preface my comments by stating that I am very pro-helmet. It just plain makes sense to me.

However, I don't feel that we should have legislation dictating that helmets must be worn. As I see it, if somebody is stupid enough to ride without a helmet (and yes, they are stupid), then they probably deserve to have their head cracked

Re:Helmets are expensive

[squidinkcalligraphy]

I agree with you here, but I think the argument is that by reducing injuries (by seatbelt, helmet, whetever), society as a whole does not have to cover the cost of your recovery, so it is everyone benefits. Oh wait, you Americans don't have universal health cover...

Re:Helmets are expensive

[hesiod]

You bring up seatbelt laws as if we were in universal agreement. I am against those as well, except for minors.

And just because a law hasn't changed the world, doesn't mean it SHOULD (or should not) be a law.

Re:Helmets are expensive

[Cervantes]

The mind boggles...

80 FREAKING THOUSAND DOLLARS?????

How can any normal, middle of the road, average income human being expect to pay this?

It's cases like that (EXACTLY like that, in fact), that make me thankful I'm Canadian. Universal health care. Yes, the profiteers are chipping away on it, but I know that if I get creamed crossing the street tonight, I won't have to sell my house, my car, and take out a loan to pay for the resulting damage (to me, not the car).

How can any civilized society look at num

Re:Helmets are expensive

[KoolDude]

getting your cloths torn up (in non-cool-group approved ways) is expensive, but skin is cheap.

I presume you take a similar stance in using condoms. :)

Wtf?

[SirStanley]

Did anyone else notice this guy NOT WEARING a helmet?

Re:Wtf?

[MikeMacK]

Really, if he's not careful he's going to wind up in a wheelchair.

Re:Wtf?

[Class Act Dynamo]

Upon seeing him in a wheelchair, one asks, "What happened to you?"
His answer, "Wheelchair accident"
I could see wheelchair companies selling these to drum up "regular" wheelchair business. Sort of like the funeral home operator that gives away free donuts every day.

Re:Wtf?

[FCAdcock]

Wearing a helmet on a jet powered wheelchair would be like giving someone a kite to jump out of a plane with.

Re:Wtf?

[PopCulture]

at speeds "up to" 60 mph, its more like giving someone a motorcycle helmet to drive a motorcycle...

Re:Wtf?

[AchilleTalon]

His last words were: "Steve-O is a whiiiiimmmmpp!!!!"

Re:Wtf?

[mobiux]

Why is it that I can picture this guys sincerly using the Eddie line from Christmas Vacation?

"I gotta be care since the government replaced the metal plate in my head with a plastic one, cuz every time we used to fire up the microwave, i'd piss my pants and forget who i was for a half hour or so"

Re:Wtf?

[Anonymous Coward]

Typical liberal.

How exactly does HIS failure to wear a helmet affect YOU?

I guess under your socialist heathcare system YOU'LL be forced to pay for HIS medical expenses.

Re:Wtf?

[lucabrasi999]

I guess under your socialist heathcare system YOU'LL be forced to pay for HIS medical expenses

Uh, did you RTFA? He lives in England. Their healthcare system IS socialist. More socialist than the US, anyway.

Re:Wtf?

[Nonillion]

Only pussys wear helments :)

Re:Wtf?

[g1zmo]

Helmets just make it easier to find your head after the wreck.

Re:Wtf?

[doofusclam]

I have seen him interviewed on the BBC, and the reason he didn't wear the lid was so he could hear if the jet was going to go wrong and if so abort. This is what racing drivers used to do in the 50s and 60s when engines were prone to seizing mid-race. He's plainly nuts, but I salute his cojones.

seany

no seatbelts either for early racers

[hpulley]

Early racecar drivers didn't wear seatbelts either as the fuel tanks were so prone to catching fire that it was better to be thrown out of your vehicle than to be strapped into it. With the development of the fuel cell, it is now much safer to be in a harness, of course but back then, 7/10 motorsport deaths were due to fire.

Nuts?

[sczimme]

He's plainly nuts, but I salute his cojones.

For some reason I got a chuckle out of this sentence.

Duckman....

[mark0]

Tell me that first picture doesn't make you think of Duckman's grandma-in-law.

Ha ha!

[east coast]

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... Christoper Reeves!

Re:Ha ha!

[Anonymous Coward]

Whats the opposite of Christoper Reeves?

Christopher Walken.

Re:Ha ha!

[east coast]

If I only had mod points.... LOL.

Going to Hell faster now

[kippy]

Does Stephen Hawking know about this yet?

This is probably a step down frmo his exeskeleton suit though...

Re:Going to Hell faster now

[ggvaidya]

Does Stephen Hawking know about this yet?

This is probably a step down frmo his exeskeleton suit though...

Now that was really below the belt.

-1 cruel

[drsquare]

He wouldn't have felt it then...

Re:-1 cruel

[p4ul13]

You win. Hands down, that was the best remark I've read in months. My hat (if I was wearing one) would be off to you.

Congrats!!

The corvette of wheelchairs

[wackysootroom]

Great, now I can run that bigshot down the hall from me at the seniors home with the Racsal [rascalscooters.com] right out of the hallway.

I'm fact, I'll be the first one to the bingo table!

Obvious

[Anonymous Coward]

If you had a mother-in-law and a jet engine, what else would you do?

Re:Obvious

[mhesseltine]

Throw her into the jet engine, like the Navy soldier who got sucked through the intake on an airplane on the flight deck at night?

Sound/Video?

[hot_Karls_bad_cavern]

Heh, i'd like to see this thing in action...and hear it (safely via some video). Can't help but think it's louder than all of holy hell.

Still, as a loyal /.er - i gotta, that's pretty cool! Not so useful in say, Wal-mart, but cool none the less :)

Freddy Got Fingered...

[Stradenko]

Freddy Got Fingered [imdb.com] has prior art. Mmmm...Betty.

That's it!

[zymurgyboy]

If the ADA crowd starts getting these en masse, then we should get some of those primo parking spaces back. It's only fair.

On the other hand ...

[rlp]

At least it wasn't a JATO unit. See Snopes [snopes.com]

Re:On the other hand ...

[cecille]

A little while ago I was reading some snopes at work (bored) and somehow I managed to surf over to this story [wagoneers.com]. Very long, but incedibly interesting.

Re:On the other hand ...

[flimflam]

Heh.

I saw that one written up in Wired some time back. It's pretty funny, because in the name of supposedly debunking an urban legend it constructs this really long convoluted story that in fact is no more credible than the original, and uses all of the techniques he claims made the original incredible.

Pretty clever, actually. It just goes to show you people will believe anything.

My advice:

[Short Circuit]

Innovate while you can. Just stay away from anything that'll get you targeted as a terrorist.

Oh, wait...I just pictured the elderly rushing road blocks. Too late...

Jet ENgines

[drewzhrodague]

Looking arround, I found jet engines made from a turbo assembly from a car. I wonder if it's possible to use something like that to power a tesla coil...

If you like that one

[Prince Vegeta SSJ4]

Check out THIS [google.com] baby. 85mph with 300LBS of thrust?!?!?

Pulse Jet Project: the gokart

[hot_Karls_bad_cavern]

Heh, couldn't help but google a bit:

This here don't look safe, but kinda fun anyway. [aardvark.co.nz]

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he just has a jet engine laying around

[FCAdcock]

Maybe I'm just behind on my new geek toys, but who the heck just has jet engines laying around their house?

Re:he just has a jet engine laying around

[slyckshoes]

Mostly people who are really into flying remote controlled (RC) airplanes and have a lot of money. Check out this site: http://www.bairdtech.com/bmt/ [bairdtech.com] for an example of what you can get.

Uh, these?

[Duhavid]

This? [geae.com]

It's actually a subterfuge

[CdBee]

Cannella is actually preparing for the X-Prize [xprize.org], this is just a land-based test launch.

Team Cannella's orbiter vehicle will have radiation shields made of old kettles.

I know, I know

[Todd Fisher]

What does a man with too much time, a jet engine, and his mother-in-law's wheelchair, do?
He probably wathces a lot of porn.

Alternately...

[GillBates0]

...he could've fed the mother-in-law copious amounts of chickpeas and beans the night before. Radishes too for added effect.

BIG jet engine on a F-350

[notthepainter]

About 20 years ago, a friend of mine worked for the Dept of Transportation working on embassy securty, gates and fences mostly.

In addition to protecting the buildings, they also looked at methods of payload delivery. The coolest one was of course the big jet engine bolted to a Ford F-350. I don't know how the tests went but I just KNOW what the enigeers were doing the night before brass was invited...

Gremlins

[Jakhel]

Am I the only person who thought of the scene in the movie "Gremlins" when the gremlins caused the mean old lady's wheelchair to speed up so fast that she flew out of the window when trying to roll down the stairs?

Re:Gremlins

[OverlordQ]

Yes, first thing I thought of was this movie [imdb.com] which actually had a rocket wheelchair :)

One word:

[TrentL]

TIMMY!

Call Guinness (the book, not beer)

[MikeMacK]

So, what is the land speed wheelchair record?

Really, this isn't a stupid as it appears

[YU Nicks NE Way]

I mean, depending on where the engine is mounted relative to the center of mass of the chair/dude combo, it might not be all that dangerous. After all, if the direction of the jet is exactly lined up with the centor of mass, and the rider never moves even at all, why, it could even hit a small bump without becoming airbor...

On second thought, this is as stupid as it appears.

Re:Really, this isn't a stupid as it appears

[T-Kir]

Plus for added stupidity, the mother-in-law also has Parkinsons disease, so I can't imagine her keeping it in a straight line!

Re:Really, this isn't a stupid as it appears

[cosmol]

I've umm experimented with riding wheelchairs down steep inclines, most aren't built for speed. A few that I have tried developed vibrations over a certain speed, one suffered a catastophic wheel disintegration as a result.

This guy isn't even wearing a helmet in the BBC photo.

yep, stupid

How does he get it to stop?

[Klowner]

Does he just throw his mother-in-law overboard with some sort of tether?

Was that socially inappropriate?

Tether?

[sczimme]

Does he just throw his mother-in-law overboard with some sort of tether?

Why does he need the tether?

/ very lucky, has a great mother in law

Oh well...

[blueZhift]

Oh well, I guess this is better than that do it yourself cruise missile [slashdot.org] guy! Though I'm not sure his mother-in-law would notice the difference!

This guy is crazy! And cool!

[pair-a-noyd]

Anyone notice he's not wearing a HELMET ??

Besides that, I have to say this is great.
I have a friend with Parkinson's and he's gonna get a huge kick out of this.
Thanks for digging this one up!

Reminds me of Niven.

[andfarm]

They had reached the bottom of the escalator. "Meet you at the top," said Garner, reaching into his ashtray. Anderson stared, jolted, as an invalid's travel chair became a flying saucer. An Arm using an illegal flying machine? An Arm?

Anderson rode up the stairs, whistling. This trip might be fun after all.

-- World of Ptavvs

reincarnation of Lawnchair Larry

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd say this guy should me Lawnchair Larry, who attached helium weather balloons to his Sears aluminum lawnchair and tried to control his height with a pellet gun. He got cold and dropped the gun. oops

this is more fun

[GuyFawkes]

http://www.corestore.org/turbine.htm
and the obligatory
http://marineturbine.com/motorsports.a sp

silver bullet

[BinLadenMyHero]

That reminds me of a nice werewolf movie from the 80's: silver bullet [imdb.com].
The main character was a paralytic boy, and his uncle makes him a powerful 'wellchair'.

Next Stop...

[petepac]

The AARP [aarp.org] Winter Nationals!

Timmah!

[DigitalCrackPipe]

So if this is anything like SouthPark will this create a wormhole and send the occupant back to the age of dinosaurs?

Stephen Hawking

[psyconaut]

Imagine the physics old robot voice could do with one of these puppies?!

-psy

Sorry, This guy wins

[El_Smack]

Jet. Powered. Beer. Cooler. [asciimation.co.nz]

Best quote: " I knew from some long forgotten physics lecture that when a liquid expands into a gas it will draw heat from its surroundings. And I happened to have a source of a suitable liquid right in my shed in the form of a LPG cylinder (liquid petroleum gas). What I needed was a way to use up a lot of fuel very, very quickly. What I needed was a jet engine! "

Re:Sorry, This guy wins

[axis-techno-geek]

Call me crazy but I just put a refrigerator in my "shed", not nearly the wow factor, but more economical, and at 19 cubit feet, can hold lots of beer.

Re:Sorry, This guy wins

[jandrese]

Yeah, but this guy didn't have to deal with biblical-sounding measurements like cubit-feet.

Check out this jet powered recumbent bicycle

[bburdette]

some pics here:

http://www.outsideconnection.com/gallant/hpv/visio n/ [outsideconnection.com]

an article:

http://www.agunn.com/work/seaweek/sw010215-zoom.ht ml [agunn.com]

And there's a pic of a conventional bike with a jet attached here:

http://bikerodnkustom2.homestead.com/rQr2.html [homestead.com]

Links? Details? Plans?

[merlin_jim]

I myself am in a wheelchair and have been considering some "added mobility" features.

I don't want plain old electric motors. I want to have to wheel myself around with muscle mass. I'm in a wheelchair. I need all the excercise I can get.

But for longer distance or varying conditions, having other means is nice.

Where are the details? plans? How do I outfit myself with a jet engine? What kind of jet engine is it? turbine? pulse jet?

For the curious, my current plan is to hand build a wankel. Actually the whole engine will be hand built. Central keyed axle going through a series of flat modules; one power pack (battery+starter/generator), one wankel, one ducted fan assembly. The ducted fan will have two exhausts with louvres on the back to change the ratio of thrust to lift.

The modules will be enclosed in aluminum. The mounting bolts will be electrically isolated from the chassis, and serve as power distribution. Fuel will come from a propane tank; I'll have an emergency camp stove propane tank to guarantee I can always get back to my car to swap out.

That should give me a nice self contained bolt on ground effect system. I only plan on using it when on rough terrain (wheelchairs don't like gravel)... so I can buy a second chair and modify it for that purpose. When the GE engine is off, the chair will just sit on its legs (traditional style chair legs with big rubber feet for stability and traction)

Hmmm does this mean it'll still be a wheelchair?

But yeah I'd consider doing all/some of this with a jet engine; if I could find some details...

Re:Links? Details? Plans?

[peacefinder]

Hmmm. Maybe it's a market niche for Armadillo Aerospace? [armadilloaerospace.com]

Re:Links? Details? Plans?

[merlin_jim]

nice... no sling seat... reduced incidence of RSI... and I'm assuming I can throttle the power assist way down and only use it when necessary (ramps, grass are good. Gravel is REALLY hard with my current chair, but the problem is not only lift as you end up lifting your weight over every minor rock, but traction as well...)

The main reason I want to DIY is a) I can create something that doesn't exist yet and b) I will only be intermittently in a chair. I can walk just fine, though with some pain. I can't

Re:Links? Details? Plans?

[merlin_jim]

I have solid rubber wheels; they hate gravel and sand. I wouldn't mind some tubular knobbys... but I'd much rather just have a GE vehicle... especially since the main event I go to every year is the lake where the Jason movies were filmed. I'd love to try my chair out on that!!!! I'm thinking removable floats so its power-off condition is safe. Luckily I can still swim (though painfully) so getting dumped on the water isn't a huge issue...

Has anyone notified...

[fgb]

...the Darwin Awards people yet?

I can smell an award in the making.

Re:It can't get any simpler-

[AKAImBatman]

This is old news. Doesn't anyone watch the AOL commercials? They've already attached the AOL optimizer to a wheelchair, a motorcycle, and a hot rod! The hot rod must have hit 88.8 miles per hour (and 1.21 JIGGAWATTS of electricity!) because it went back in time! ;-)

Re:a movie

[kjeldor]

That would be the masterpiece of cinema: Freddy Got Fingered. And who could forget her fetish for being whacked on the legs with a big piece of wood? Classic movie.

Re:a movie

[lucabrasi999]

Freddy Got Fingered.....Classic movie

Yet Another Sign of Our Impending Doom.

The movie title Freddy Got Fingered just appeared in the same paragraph as the phrase Classic movie. Excuse me while I hide, because after this event, God will want to clean house. Here come the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!

Re:What will Stephen Hawking think of next?

[ScottGant]

Don't forget, in the future Stephen Hawking, Al Gore, Nichelle Nichols and Gary Gygax make up "The Vice Presidential Action Rangers" whose job is to protect the space/time continuum!

I miss Futurama

Re:What will Stephen Hawking think of next?

[mikael]

Or he's Wah-Hu reincarnated [about.com]


Nearly all uses up to this time were for warfare or fireworks, but there is an interesting old Chinese legend that reported the use of rockets as a means of transportation. With the help of many assistants, a lesser-known Chinese official named Wan-Hu assembled a rocket- powered flying chair. Attached to the chair were two large kites, and fixed to the kites were forty- seven fire-arrow rockets.

On the day of the flight, Wan-Hu sat himself on the chair and gave the command to

Re:Wobbly ride

[corngrower]

I was wondering about that. Somehow I think steering the thing would be pretty precarious, given the short wheelbase. Did that article say speeds up to 60 mph? Even with a minimal steering mechanism, that seems awfully dangerous. It probably would be a really rough ride as well - no suspension system, the thing would be bouncing all over the place.

Re:I for one,

[Cornelius Chesterfie]

Ha ha ha! Oh gosh that's funny! That's really funny! Do you write your own material? Do you? Because that is so fresh. "I for one welcome our new X overlords". You know, I've, I've never heard anyone make that joke before. Hmm. You're the first. I've never heard anyone reference, reference that outside the program before. Because that's what Kent says on the show right? Isn't it? I for one welcome our new insect overlords. And, and yet you've taken that and used it out of context to obtain a +5 comment in t

Re:Huh?

[general_re]

(Score:1, Redundant)

Well, shit - I guess I was just asking for that ;)