Ig Nobel winner Van Impe: Origin of the auto
LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY nebris)
In the September 19, 2007 episode of his weekly broadcast, Dr. Jack Van Impe explains the technological history of the automobile: the basic engineering design, he reveals, was published in the Bible.
In 2001, Dr. Van Impe and his wife, Rexella, were awarded the Ig Nobel Astrophysics prize, for their discovery that black holes fulfill all the technical requirements to be the location of Hell.
All this and more at Improbable Research
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