Department of Cool
October 22nd, 2005 - 2:23 pm
From Autoblog:
You think your MINI is small? Or maybe the clown car at the circus? Think again, because researchers at Rice University have succeeded in building a functional vehicle out of a single molecule.
The same team has developed a photon-powered motor to drop under the hood.
Those light-consuming bastards! We must enact vigorous legislation against light emissions at once!
Is it a hemi?
I take it that the Japanese are busy engineering and even smaller, more efficient car.
I take it this wasn’t union built. Man, just putting on a UAW cap drops your IQ by 50 points.
I think I’m an example of what’s wrong with this country: I’m glad there are smart people around because just thinking about what went in to doing that makes my brain hurt.
IF they use those to move stuff around, whould the Teamsters have to get involved?
Sure… but how much trunk space does it have? And what does it run on anyway? Are we going to have a dependency on foreign carbohydrates now?
What kind of pick up that thing Got? 0 to light speed in a billionth of a nanosecond?
That’s one way to improve your car company’s CAFE ratings… Include a few thousand of the things in every full-sized (Heh) vehicle you sell & you’re good to go!