[lowbridge]

More details on Ginger, the alleged scooter at the center of controversy and wild speculation for close to a year, may emerge next week amid a flurry of patent applications from its inventor.

This is News????

I've seen that episode a million times already. The Professor invents a scooter out of coconuts and bamboo which they hope to use in their escape from the island only to have Gilligan ruin their plans. (They christened the scooter after Ginger, but not before a nasty fight with Mrs. Howell and Mary Ann over who it gets named after. Ginger won out only because she bribed Judge Gilligan with a coconut custard cream pie, that scheming temptress.)

[cybertoolzz]

mary anne always did it for me

ginger looked like a 15$ whore

[Joe Bonforte]

I suspect it may be hydrogen peroxide powered. There are small engines, originally developed for helicopters, that put out a lot of horsepower in a very small space, and with no moving parts. The problem with them was that the catalyst used to get the peroxide to break down only lasted for about five hours of engine usage. If this guy has solved that problem, he could build a scooter the size and weight of a suitcase. It would have a fabulous power-to-weight ratio, and should get reasonably efficient mileage because it burns no fuel when coasting.

[SamAdams76]

I read a good article about this Dean Kamen, I believe it was in Wired magazine. Anyhow, this guy is a genius with a lot of practical inventions to his credit, most notably a stair-climbing wheelchair (which promises to make handicapped-accessible ramps a thing of the past). He is also a good friend of President Bush and has had him over his house in New Hampshire (before he became president).

[Billy_bob_bob]

"others debate whether it will contain a Stirling engine, which is an almost-perpetual motion machine. "

Is it a job requirement that those people who write articles for newspapers have to be drooling idiots? A Stirling engine is a simple, external combustion engine. It has a nifty way of transferring power from pistons to a crankshaft using a tilted plate that the pistons are mounted to. It is in no way whatsoever any kind of "almost perpetual motion machine". Sheesh.

I've seen people like these reporters working at fast food restaurants. They're the "special people" they have cleaning the tables very, very slowly.

[B Knotts]

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