THE TESLA CYBERTRUCK LUNAR ROVER IS DUMB AS HELL
Basically, any dumbass with CAD software can throw together a concept of whatever deranged idea, and then I feel compelled to ruin it.
Category: Transportation
19 REASONS THIS “SURVIVAL” STORY SMELLS FISHY
Have you missed me? Trick question; I know you’ve missed me. Frankly, the main reason I haven’t been writing is laziness. I make no bones about it. The second reason…
13 NEW RULES FOR AIR TRAVEL
In the last year, I have made ten trips that required air travel. I have flown something like 100,000 miles and spent roughly the entirety of my adult life in…
COULD THIS BE THE WORLD’S FIRST NUCLEAR-POWERED AIRLINER? (NO.)
On January 5, 2011, I wrote the following: “Designer” is a dangerous term, because it usually means some crazy person with ridiculous ideas who then makes CAD drawings or actual…
4 REASONS SOLAR ROADWAYS ARE FUCKING STUPID
The idea of solar roadways has been around for a while, and I haven’t said anything about it because I thought it was self-evident how stupid it was. I was…
THREE REASONS THIS ROCKET WON’T SEND US TO MARS
Ever been to the website Elite Daily? If you haven’t, don’t bother. Home of such journalistic masterpieces as “Zayn Malik Isn’t Worried About Leaving One Direction Because His Fiance Is…
TRANSPORTATION IDEAS THAT WON’T WORK (BECAUSE OF SCIENCE): PART 3
I’ll keep this one short. A company named Innowattech (innovation + watt + tech. Get it?) wants to put piezoelectric pads under railways to harvest electric energy from passing trains.…
TRANSPORTATION IDEAS THAT WON’T WORK (BECAUSE OF SCIENCE): PART 2
So in our last post that was titled like this, we visited some douche who thinks that he can get energy out of cars by making them worse. That was…
TRANSPORTATION IDEAS THAT WON’T WORK (BECAUSE OF SCIENCE): PART 1
Eventually, there will come a day when people stop listening to “designers” with no background in physics who propose physics-based things. Until then, the word “designer” will continue to mean…
SHWEEB: TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM (THAT WON’T WORK) OF THE FUTURE
If you’re like me, you’ve always hated that our transportation systems like bikes and buses and cars all operate on an existing infrastructure, rather than one that would require a…
THE WORST COFFEE SPILL EVER
Let’s talk about coffee. You’ve had it. You’ve spilled it. What’s the worst that could happen? Stuff gets wet, and you have less coffee. No biggie. But what if you…
SIX MORE CATASTROPHICALLY USELESS CONCEPT CARS
I have written about concept cars twice before. First up was GM, whose car concepts sucked in a kind of general way, but weren’t really inherently impossible. Then there was…
CHINA ATTACKS ITSELF. KIND OF. ACCIDENTALLY.
So China, since they have tons of money (and all of our money too), has decided that they want to go to the moon. With people. In order to do…
THE MOST AWESOME SINGLE BUTTON IN THE HISTORY OF BUTTONS
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, and have we got a treat for you. I’m going to set this up in my usual disconnected fashion, so deal with it. After this,…
APPROXIMATELY AS USEFUL AS…WELL, A PEDAL-POWERED SUBMARINE.
French people are crazy, right? Right. So when I heard that some French engineers had designed a pedal-powered submarine, I had to check that shit out. Here it is.
Unreasonably Dangerous Onion Rings 