The immediate, pressing threat of your life (or the way you live it) being ended is a powerful motivator for achieving things thought to previously be not worth the cost, too difficult, or impossible. What you're looking at in a modern warplane is the direct descendant of a struggle for survival.

Dr. Jones does not approve.

That way if the original melts, they have a replacement.

Well played sir, well played.

Overland Park/Johnson County is where the rich go to count their money. It's just a large collection of multi-million dollar housing and country clubs.

I'm sorry, all I got out of that was this (re. tribal newsletter)...

Nope. If a Lightweight Porcelain Veyron passed you already doing 316 MPH (certainly not a stretch using zmax!), it would do 1000ft in a paltry 2.15 seconds and it would be another 1.85 seconds before you crossed the line.

I'd like to see the tire mounting machine he's going to use...