Skeptic Project

"Anyhow, I was wondering if you had any useful skills that you might care to put to use and help me with my project"

Yeah, I can hook you up an appointment with a psychologist.

A homeless bum just offered me help with my social skills.

That's rich.

I like to help everyone.

Is that reverse psychology ?

@Nanos,

What does this device do?

http://www.nanos.org.uk/downloads/cyclesolarpanel.jpg</p>

http://www.nanos.org.uk/downloads/cyclebackbox.jpg

It turns that ordinary dull looking acid green helmet into a glow in the dark acid green helmet.

Nanos, why go through all that trouble charging up horns when you can just get this:

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Ventura-Children-s-Bike-Horn-Crocodile/11065107?sourceid=1500000000000003260420&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=11065107

haha

This thread is some serious lol.

Solar powered horn. Oh man, so hilarious.

> "The E-Myth"

Read that recently, its good isn't it.

> "No BS Business Success" and "No BS Direct Marketing for
> Non-Direct Marketing Businesses" for some basic marketing
> training "The effective executive" which is just a must-have

Thanks, I'll look those up.

> Cut your internet connection for a week and get through as
> many as possible.

No real need, before the internet I read myself though some 15,000+ books, which is how come I know a bit about many things.

> Solar powered horn. Oh man, so hilarious.

More or less hilarious than one you need to change the batteries in when they go flat, or one thats powered by pumped air and doesn't last long, or one that you need to plug into a battery charger regularly.

Solar power appears to me to be the best low maintence solution, I'm suprised it doesn't seem the same to you.

What would you suggest as better ?

> what you do is as close to engineering as TZM is to
> political change.

I'm all ears on how to improve my engineering skills, is there anything in particular that grinds your gears or you see mistakes in ?

> Since he has no parking brake

That the moment that is, but being how the wheels are individually chained, that does double up as a kind of parking brake for all practical purposes.

Ultimately an independant parking brake is a must, along with reverse. (Though I can see going without reverse at first would be practical, and just push the vehicle back with my feet through a hole in the floor.)

Oh, hi. This needs a bump.

I don't understand why it's made of wood and not metal. The stress on the frame with a rider would cause it to snap into pieces if it went over a pothole at a high enough speed. It would also go up in flames if anything seriously went wrong.

Wood is cheaper and easier to work with, normal cars have I imagine a similar risk with all their plstics and fuel on boaard as far as fire goes.

Wood works perfectly well in boats, so why not cars:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgQdjx-oEdo

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-516687/The-worlds-wooden-supercar-faster-Porsche-Lamborghini.html</p>

> I will just bump this thread every single day until he fucks off.

You do know one of my hobbies is immortality, so the chances are you will be dead of old age before I leave!

Wooden frame cars can last perfectly well, even longer than steel ones, here is an example of a production vehicle with a wooden chassis and wooden bodypanels with a real petrol engine in it:

http://www.nanos.org.uk/downloads/bravenewdawn/projects/solarvelomobile/woodencar.jpg

> gotta ask yourself why it is we don't have more wooden, street legal cars.

Because metal cars are more easily mass produced in a factory, whilst wooden vehicles are more one offs and in limited production volume, though there have been efforts in that direction in the past:

http://www.oldwoodies.com/feature-africar.htm</p>

> They are made of fiberglass and metals now.

And they don't last so long do they :-)

Wood is more easily adapted, hacked about by the average person with hand tools, an important consideration for customers wishing to retrofit it.

> Plastic doesn't ignite like wood does.

Actually, plastics ignite easier than wood does, wood tends to smoulder and not give off toxic fumes whilst its doing it, plastics on the other hand, those fumes will kill you!

One sees this effect more easily in houses made of wood with just wood in them, compared with houses with plastics in them.

> wood will not distribute the stress the way metal cars do. It will splinter and snap.

I disagree there, whilst you can have a poorly designed vehicle that does indeed do the job badly, you can also have a well designed vehicle with plywood that is more akin to behave like a flexing metal (Only wood has more bounce backness.) when stressed beyond breaking point.

http://www.morgan-motor.co.uk/technical/faq.phtml</p>

> 2. Is it still made with a Wooden chassis?

> The new Aero 8 also has an ash frame. This gives unique strength, flexibility and
> surprisingly, research showed that the frame made the car safer on impact tests.

> People far smarter than anyone here have dealt with this and it was pretty clear
> then that wood was a bad idea for car production.

Who and where ?

As its not at all clear to me, as such I would be interested to see their thoughts/etc. on the subject.

Perhaps one should tell these folks its a bad idea..

http://www.bentrideronline.com/messageboard/showthread.php?t=9934

A nice example here of a wooden velomobile:

http://www.recumbentblog.com/2010/03/31/friend-wood-wooden-velomobile-mkii/</p>

But hey, that is what testing is for!

Now, who wants to don the crash helmet and do 30mph down a hill into the back of a parked car.. ?

Not mine no.