CommentsDisplaying Wilkins's 10 most recent comments.

• Are Studies Evaluating Cellphone Use & Car Crashes Overestimating Risk?

  December 15, 2011 at 11:19pm

  In reply to Lonescrapper.

  Talking to someone who’s in the car with you is completely different than talking to someone on the phone. The person in the car shares your environment, and normally will pause in the conversation if they see a situation developing in front of you. The person on the phone just yaks on obliviously, demanding your attention. That’s why talking on the phone is more distracting.

  I ALWAYS look to pull over before I take a call. People in my personal life and my business life know to leave a message, and I will get back to them.

  Except for the passenger who yaks on, oblivous to all around them. Driving with those people is as bad as drinking and driving. If they won’t straighten up, kick them to the curb (at the bus stop if you’re a gentleman, or a lady).

• See These Nanotubes and Nanorockets Create an ‘Invisibility Cloak’

  October 8, 2011 at 11:08pm

  Eventually we’ll reach the same conclusion as every other advanced civilization in the universe, that it’s just too difficult to make things invisible. Much simpler to generate an SEP field (Somebody Else’s Problem field). Everyone will see the tank driving down Elm Street, but it won’t register in the conscience, because it‘s somebody else’s problem. Concept from Douglas Adams.

• Yes, This Power Plant Can Actually Fly

  October 8, 2011 at 10:55pm

  In reply to hillbilly patriot.

  Bird strike would be reduced at the altitude this would operate at. It takes energy to get to 1/4 mile up, energy most birds won‘t use unless it’s useful, as sometimes in migration or for some predatory species perhaps. Also this is still an early stage of development. Concievably this could be developed to operate higher in the atmosphere. Aircraft could be controlled outside the operating parameters. It‘s an interesting concept that’s been around for a while, maybe it’s time is coming.

• Could Urine Be the Next Rocket Fuel?

  October 6, 2011 at 11:21pm

  In reply to Sirfoldallot.

  I just realized – that’d PI$$ off the Saudis!

• Could Urine Be the Next Rocket Fuel?

  October 6, 2011 at 11:20pm

  In reply to Sirfoldallot.

  So it can’t launch us into space. How about run an SUV?

• Want to Know Why Spicy Foods Make Your Nose Run?

  October 6, 2011 at 11:00pm

  In reply to MrMagoo.

  Chop the jalapenos, toss them in the frying pan for breakfast, then remember you haven’t put your contact lenses in yet.

  I can tell you, it doesn’t matter how much you wash your hands X-o

• Are You Ready for Japan’s Tsunami-Fighting Mini-Noah’s Arks?

  October 1, 2011 at 4:57am

  Alien technology … Mork’s egg.

• Report: Iran Threatens to Deploy Navy Off U.S. Coast

  September 28, 2011 at 11:29pm

  Hahahahahahahahahaha! Hahahaha! Hahaha! (wiping tears), hee hee!

  Glad I don’t have a weak sphincter, might’ve dumped my bladder …

• Egyptian Cleric: ‘Every Zionist Who Enters Egypt…Should Be Killed’

  September 28, 2011 at 11:22pm

  No no, the Muslim Brotherhood is more a secular club nowadays. More like a curling league. Or the Rotary.

• See South Africa’s New Multi-Mission Combat Plane in Action

  September 28, 2011 at 11:15pm

  Weird photo angle & w.a. lens selection, that pic with it on the ground, the two aircrew standing to the side. Why is the canopy so big? Makes the aircrew look like a couple of GI Joes.