Amphibious Cars - 100 years of

Check out this cool website. Looks like as long as cars have been around somone has tried to operate one in water (1899).

http://mitglied.lycos.de/amphicar/englisch/carlist2.html

 

Guess rivers are less crowded than roads! Can't dig the damn things up for a start!

 

Every one of them look better and probably work better than that amphibious
snowmobile that was shown here awile ago. Sam

 

I posted that one too.

Hey Sam, that was your 100th post, and I put 100 years in the thread title - time for one of us to buy a lottery ticket.

 

That's one of the two things I've realized. The first was if I drop a jar or container lid, it's going to land right, i.e. with the gooey side up 90+% of the time. I don't know if it's my luck or some sort of aerodynamical physics at work, but I'm happy about it. The second is that it seems that more than a coincidental amount of unlikely things happen in pairs. Maybe I'll be idly thinking about apes in Antartica and the next day I'll see a book about apes in Anartica, or an unusual word is used at the end of one TV program only to be used at the beginning of the next. I wish I could somehow cash in on it, but alas and alack, apparently not. By the way, along with 100 posts comes the ignoble label of "Senior Member". I'd like to trade that for something else, maybe "Young Whippersnapper". You have AIA under your name, how did you do that? Sam

 

American Institute of Architects

Cheers George/kach22i.

 

Sam- click "User CP" on the blue menu bar at the top of this page. "Edit Profile" is one of the options that appears at left, you can change everything you like from there.

I'd be curious to see such things as drag calculations and stability curves for these water-cars.....lol
When the Aquastrada first came out, I was quite impressed by it... I suspect Gibbs has swiped a bunch of the technology from it, unfortunately the Gibbs car is many times more expensive than the Aquastrada was supposed to be.... they've turned it from a fairly practical sports vehicle into a CEO's play toy. Grr....

 

Oh, that's what he meant. I have the flu right now, not really thinking straight - sorry.

 

Here's what I mean about things in pairs. It's not exact but it's very close. I'm reading the cartoon "NON SEQUITUR" in the Sunday paper.
The horse says; "Um... what are you doing?"
The little girl says; "Valuable scientific research." (She's buttering toast and throwing it on the floor.)
Horse; "Oh...is that the new term for slob?"
Girl; "No... I'm testing the old hypothesis that toast will hit the floor butter-side down."
Horse; "O-o-o-kay...And the point being?"
Girl; "To see if there's consistency to the theory of gravity, or if it's all just a matter of random choice."
I'm not much on math, but what are the odds of mentioning something as obscure as gooey lids consistently hitting the floor in a certain way and wondering if it's "luck or areodynamical physics at work" and then two days later reading this strip about something as obscure as the consistency of gooey toast hitting the floor in a certain way and wondering if it's a "theory of gravity, or just a matter of random choice."?..??
Aside from that, what are the odds of the first part of my quoted post from two days ago becoming a prime example of the subject of the second (totally unrelated) part of the post?....???
Am I bending facts to fit events or vise-versa, or does this seem sort of unusual? Lastly, does anyone know how I can cash in on this "phenomena"? Sam